Ling is a middle-aged woman who just lost her job. With her husband working away from home and her teenage daughter absent and aloof, Ling faces a mid-life empty nest alone. Her two social salvations are caring for her mother-in-law in the hospital (where she forms a strange relationship with another patient) and the temptation of tango dancing through a friend from work.
Noted cinematographer Hsiang Chienn expounds on an obvious influence from Tsai Ming-liang, putting his visual skills to work in a very moving debut feature.