(1994, Taipei, 119')
Taipei, 1994. Three lonely strangers, bound by the grip of solitude, end up unknowingly sharing the same roof. May Lin, a real estate agent, uses the luxurious vacant apartment for her occasional encounters with Ah-jung, a street vendor. Hsiao-kang, a seller of funerary urns, seizes the key and makes it his temporary home. Together, they drift through this space where, despite their physical proximity, they are never able to form genuine connections. With silences and long static shots, Tsai Ming-Liang portrays the impossibility of finding comfort in urban modernity.