Good Dog's Life

Fang’s home is cramped and chaotic—not even a dining table to gather around. One day, she visits her friend Qi’s birthday party and, for the first time, sits at a real table to share a meal. That simple moment awakens a longing she never knew she had.

Vivian and Joshua, who haven’t seen each other for a long time, separately seek out Tien in private to ask for advice about whether they should break up with the other. As Tien listens to them talk on and on, she also begins to have some thoughts of her own.

On a winter hot-spring trip, twelve-year-old Dodie refuses to enter the water in the girly swimsuit her father bought. Feeling misunderstood, she hides by the poolside, watching the girls in the bath—none of whom look like someone she wants to become. Then, the calm, androgynous presence of Fujiko, a 69-year-old bathhouse worker, catches her attention. Dodie quietly steps closer…

An ophthalmologist numbs his past with eye drops, drifting into visions born of childhood trauma. When he meets a mysterious patient named Pin-Hong, the line between reality and illusion begins to blur. As his assistant Eve prepares to leave his fractured world, he must face a painful choice: to remain in the gentle comfort of illusion, or to truly see the world as it is.

"Facing the stirrings of first love and growth, we all want to leave something behind, but in the end, everything moves forward silently." Hong Guang, who is about to enter junior high, spends the entire summer idly wandering around his mother's swimming pool. As the summer is about to end, the sudden appearance of a girl brings changes to Hong Guang's monotonous and stifling life, and certain feelings begin to quietly emerge in his heart.