Mostrando entrevistas com Hirokazu Kore-eda, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Wang Bing, Kiyoshi Kurosawa e Jia Zhangke, este retrato documental fornece uma perspectiva completa sobre o novo cinema de Taiwan. Um documento essencial de um dos capítulos mais importantes do cinema do século XX.

A mysterious stranger approaches a group of young friends at a sleepy small town playground, then kidnaps and brutally murders one of the girls. Wracked with grief, the victim’s unhinged mother Asako demands that the shaken survivors identify the killer or face a penance of her choosing.