Everything around Mrs. Yan looks perfect, but her mind is as confused and complex as the variety of medications she is taking. To reach peace of body and mind, she tries many methods including qi training, but to no avail. One day she gets a message that the woman who had an affair with her husband is in a nursing home and suffering from dementia.
Acting
Chen Shiang-Chyi's face does more work than most scripts.
Direction
Chienn Hsiang turns qi class into psychological horror.
Director
Chienn Hsiang
Chen Shiang-Chyi
Mrs. Yan. Hsiu-Hsin YEH
Chen Yi-wen
Mr. Yan. Fu-Sheng YAN
Huang Rou-ming
Ke-Yan SU
Ding Ning
Master's wife
Fan Kuang-yao
Master
Cres Chuang
Guowei Detective Agency. Danny LI
Kerr Hsu
Office boss
Ven Kao
Bartender
Sugar Tang
Caregiver
Marian Chung
Fellow
Wang Cian-he
Office colleague / Wedding guest
Sherry Peng
Nursing home counter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Taiwan's 'qi' wellness industry exploded post-2010; this film treats it as another performance of middle-class respectability. Chienn Hsiang previously explored female interiority in 'Exit' (2014).
The 85-minute runtime is deliberate—Mrs. Yan's days feel both endless and truncated, mirroring how trauma disrupts temporal experience.
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