Namesake

Sam is a middle-aged taxi driver. As usual, he drives Yu-Hsin to the senior high school then begins a busy day. But when he comes to pick her up from school, he finds Yu-Hsin on a scooter with a young boy. Sam decides to follow them.

Specialized in abstract art, Hsu Pao-Ching is a middle-aged painter who struggles in his career. By chance, he begins giving at art lessons in a prison, where he discovers that Chou Chang-Ting, one of the inmates, has great talent for painting. He holds am exhibition of Chou’s works, however as Chou committed random attacks and killed several people, a protest is staged against it. In the end, Hsu gets hurt and the exhibition is withdrawn. Hsu cannot understand why the public cannot appreciate art without prejudice and decides to approach the victims’ family. Moreover, Hsu goes to Chou’s old family home in search of the inspiration for Chou’s paintings.

On the rooftop a girl plans to jump from a building but bumps into a gangster cook who tries to persuade her not to commit suicide. Nevertheless, the two are not really on the same page.

Taco meets a girl named Cathy who just missed her train.He tells her a story about “Cathy,” a name shared by all his ex-girlfriends…