名年仅16岁的少女非常厌倦学校和家庭的生活，选择了离家出走。她认识了宇和岛上的痴汉，又遇见了一个流动艺术团，还一度加入了他们的行列。只是不久以后，她又一个人上路了。少女不小心摔倒在路边，一个以卖鱼为生的中年男子木村把她带到自己家中，并很细心地照顾她，直到她安全康复。少女渐渐对木村产生了情意。由于参与赌博木村被警察拘捕，被放回的晚上少女亲了她。拿不定主意的少女哭泣着往家走去，却在路上听说邻居的姑娘加代已经自杀而死。对此少女并不觉得多么意外，她想如果自己没有出走也可能如此。她又回到木村家中，二人紧紧拥抱开始亲热，均有一种莫名的安全感。随后少女与木村结为夫妻做贩鱼的生意。在给妈妈的信中少女这样写道：“我很满足自己现在的生活，我认为这是我理想的生活方式。”描写少女出走的影片司空见惯，途中的所见所闻也缺乏特别能吸引人的东西，少女对中年男人的主动诱惑也不那么令人信服，可能会给观众一种观念先行的感觉。但导演斋藤耕一作为松竹公司贯彻青春剧目路线的代表者，倒是在本片中坚持了一贯的制作方式，同时也具有一定的现实意义。本处曾获1972年《电影旬报》十佳奖第四名，导演斋藤耕一还获得了每日电影竞赛导演奖。

痴迷篆刻的年轻男子镇（小田切让 饰）连续数天被真实感极强的梦所困扰，当梦见开车撞人之后，他立即前往梦中的车祸现场，却发现这一切都曾真实发生。警方调取附近的录像，找到肇事逃逸的车辆，并从家中带走正在熟睡的汽车主人——刚刚结束一段恋情的兰（李娜英 饰）。兰拒绝承认罪行，然录像中的自己却确凿无疑证明了一切。最终查明兰患有严重的梦游症，令人难以置信的是，她的梦境竟与镇的意识相通。镇的梦操纵着兰的身体，去完成这一件件匪夷所思的事情。借着奇妙的机缘，两人走到一起，共同寻找着摆脱这恐怖之梦的办法，却又不得不去面对深藏心中黑暗的一面……

IN SHANGHAIIn Shanghai Lou Ye, 2001short FilmIn Shanghai or the eyes of a Chinese director of his city, Shanghai, Communist economic center , but also megalopolis with many faces ...Lou Ye is a great filmmaker. After having the success that we know for the sublime Suzhou River, the young director of the sixth generation is coupled to the design of this short film about Shanghai, the city of his heart , beautiful and multicultural . Camera in hand ( for lovers is a Sony DSR- PD150 DVCam ... ) for subjective , Lou Ye rhyme begins this urban plan by a girl asleep on a bed. Slowly the camera moves out of the suburb where this unknown young woman is given the arms of Morpheus , better visit this city that is Shanghai. The narrator who is also the hero says in voice-over that he loves this megalopolis . It focuses on the residents of these neighborhoods without cloth and without resources where most of the native population of Shanghai Lodge . Indeed the streets Zongshan Donglu which contains the Bund, Pudong, the famous Oriental Pearl is not the stock market and everyone. We must go farther Jingan District to discover the social wealth of this city . Why attach immense cold and nervous architectures while the Shanghai Blood flows through the veins of its rural ? It's a little message Lou Ye through this short film ."You can guess who they are, but we can never really know "Lou Ye eradicates a rare cinematic power of this often precarious and old people waiting on the bus every morning to go to work and make the Chinese economy humming .The old streets of the city like the nearby temple Cheung Hong Bund to the bank of the Huangpu , the filmmaker does not recognize the city. As if all these steel towers of the 21st century had absorbed the social essence of the " Paris of the East" .Lou Ye then takes us on a visit to the arcades , discos, clubs, dances, flashy locations and disconnected from the reality of ordinary people in the middle of poverty which is near workers and street vendors where people drown their defecation in water by putting the edge of an old tub ... This is a new look for the Western .Finally, after making stops in a dangerous Shanghai streets by night , the hero wakes up in the morning director in a corner near buildings unsafe and fixed on the face of a shy child , concluding : "The only thing that matters is Shanghai . "By these words Mr. Lou Ye, I bear you my esteem .

This short by Tsai Ming-liang, completed in 2021, was filmed at "the Dune" in Yilan, Taiwan, where the eight films in his Walker series were being shown.