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Synopsis
A young woman urgently seeks to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend Lung is the key to the future, but Lung is stuck in a past that combines baseball and traditional loyalty that leads him to squander his nest egg bailing her father out of financial trouble.
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Josh Safdie: 'We also returned to things that we love, like Edward Yang’s Taipei Story.' Benny Safdie: 'The way that his characters existed in a city, that sense of ennui and exhaustion, really spoke to us. Taipei Story was particularly interesting to us for its long, quiet takes.'
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