A lumberjack Katsu, lives in the mountains. When a film crew suddenly arrives to shoot a zombie movie, he finds himself roped into assisting them and frustrated by the pushy crew, including the young spineless Koichi. As it turns out, he's the twenty-five-year-old rookie director, struggling to handle the pressures and teetering on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Four tragicomic short films, each by a different director, explore the changing lives of the Taiwanese people from the 1950s to the 1980s. The second segment, about a girl's adolescence, is Edward Yang's debut film while the third and fourth segments are by KoYi-Cheng and Chang Yi, respectively.
Yannick and his friends target a trio of younger, presumably wealthier kids, two of them from “traditional” Swedish backgrounds and one whose family emigrated from Asia. Yannick and his pals claim that one of the boys stole a friend’s phone….
In the 1980s, Taiwan is still under Martial Law, and people are locked in the battle to have it lifted; a social revolution is set to take off. Mabel, Liam, and Aaron throw themselves into the fight for freedom: they paint graffiti slogans on the walls of their school, and plan a protest during the morning assembly...
