Rain and snow do not cease for the death of a sheep; even its footprints are covered after death. Is the melting snowman caused by direct sunlight, or by a stray dog’s puddle of urine?
In a small northeastern city, petty criminals Dajun and Xiaodong both fall for Yanzi, a sex worker who longs to head south. Before leaving, she needs someone to carry out a task. They decide to help her, but an accident changes everything.
In Paris, a poet enters a mysterious tunnel and sees several strangers living through parallel encounters and separations. Every meeting feels inevitable; every parting is both an ending and a beginning.
Lulu and Kiki often wait beneath a bridge for a train bound for home. After Lulu is murdered by a client, Kiki takes revenge. On a snow-filled evening, he returns alone and roars as the train rushes past.
In 2050, an abnormal solar flare erases humanity’s memories overnight. A-Ming falls for a woman who still remembers, but gradually loses the ability to tell which memories are his and which are hers.
Adai loves cars, yet his job makes him sell many of them each day. He records every car in a diary. On his days off, he finds one destined for destruction and sits inside all afternoon, drifting between memory and imagination.
A group of Deaf basketball players apprehend every moment on the court through body and sensation.
A-Ming tries to buy sex worker A-Ling her freedom, only to be murdered in a scheme devised by A-Ling and her pimp. While disposing of his body, she realizes she may already have fallen in love with him.