Hsiao-Kang est vendeur de montres dans les rues de Taipei. Quelques jours après le décès de son père, il rencontre une jeune femme, Shiang-Chyi, qui part le lendemain pour Paris.

A mourning wife finds her dead husband reincarnated as a fish. An older Jean-Pierre Léaud is summoned into existence following a viewing of The 400 Blows. Tsai’s masterwork is an elliptical study in grief, loss and synchronicity that seeks to symbolically obliterate the wounding effects of time.