Guohui and Peiling were childhood sweethearts who met again after years of being apart and became a couple. On an idyllic island south of Singapore, they spend their last moments together as their relationship falls apart.

Singaporean director Liao Jiekai crafts this hypnotic, layered look at a childhood relationship and the changeability of memory. Singapore’s colonial past and present are folded into this fable-like drama, which finds, in island life and shimmering water, rich visual poetry and metaphor.