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Spoiler-free premise
A Taipei family's wedding, illness, first love, business strain, and childhood curiosity unfold across one eventful year.
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At a Taipei wedding, middle-aged NJ reconnects with former love Sherry while wife Min-Min enters a crisis after her mother falls into a coma. Teenager Ting-Ting navigates first love, and young Yang-Yang photographs what people cannot see behind themselves.
Why it belongs
Yi Yi makes ordinary family life inexhaustible through architectural framing, patient duration, humor, and Yang-Yang's beautifully literal curiosity.
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Windows, reflections, doorframes, office rooms, hospital visits, wedding and funeral rituals, and Yang-Yang's photographs hold several lives in parallel; duration lets small decisions acquire consequence without announcing themselves.
