Oom has no papers or formal training but is good at caring for the elderly and disabled. When his situation as a caregiver in the mountains becomes too much for him, he has to choose between survival or dignity.
Acting
Wanlop Rungkumjad's silent suffering — you feel every unspoken panic.
Cinematography
Mountain fog as metaphor: beautiful, suffocating, inescapable.
Direction
Chiang Wei-liang trusts you to read what's unsaid. Devastating restraint.
Director
Chiang Wei-liang
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Taiwan's 700,000+ migrant caregivers are legally invisible — this film forces you to see one.
Chiang spent months embedded with real caregivers; that bathroom scene? Happened. Twice.