Just coming out of the jail, depressed and close-hearted, Ah Yu met two men with different characters from each other. One is a businessman, charming and mature; the other is a young supervisor in a factory with a promising future. But these two loves are short-lived, fading away like bubbles on the beach. With a wounded soul, she went back to the cottage owned by Sister An, a friend from jail.
Acting
Tarcy Su's guarded, oceanic performance — every glance withheld.
Cinematography
The sea becomes a third character: beautiful, indifferent, erasing footprints.
Direction
Wen-Tang Cheng lets scenes breathe until they ache.
Director
Wen-Tang Cheng
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Taiwan's 2000s 'second new wave' — rural-set dramas examining urbanization's human cost, often with female protagonists navigating economic and romantic precarity.
The title refers to a local fish species that dies when removed from water — a metaphor you won't miss, but that earns its heaviness.
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