Ming-shiou Tsai

Ah-Chung lives with his dysfunctional family in a shanty town next to a wildlife reservation zone. His mentally ill brother almost gets knocked over by a truck intended to illegally dump waste there. To appease the gods and to rid the family of bad luck and other mysterious miseries? his mother makes Ah-Chung join a religious performing troupe. (BIFF)

A receptionist at a suicide hotel in Taipei forms a fleeting friendship over the course of one night with a guest who can't decide if she wants to live or die.