Luo Haitao has been hired by Wang Ping’s wife to spy on the passionate relationship between her husband and another man, but slowly loses control of the situation. With his beautiful girlfriend, Li Jing, he is drawn in to the affair, overcome by the fever of drunken spring nights. All are possessed by an exhilarating madness of the senses, a dangerous malady that leads the heart and head astray...

Restless and young, best buddies Selim and ÇaÇa struggle to get by while living on the outskirts of Istanbul. By day they raise pigeons on their roof. By night they drive their pimped-up car, ‘My Orange Angel’ and roam the city streets with their entourage. Selim dreams of marrying his girlfriend and owning his own business with ÇaÇaif only he can keep the unpredictable ÇaÇa under control. They’re looking for their big break, and figure that their relationship with the local mafia boss will help them open up their own parking-lot business near a high-end shopping mall. But everyone wants a slice of the cake and the mall’s dodgy security contractor, Sait, is not so willing to let his ‘turf’ slide to these up-and-coming lads. Plus, the cops are on the boys’ tail to gather evidence against the mafia’s now ‘legalized’ activities. It isn’t long before Selim and ÇaÇa’s dreams will be shattered when they find themselves in water over their heads.

Chengdu nowadays. The state owned factory 420 shuts down to give way to a complex of luxury apartments called «24 CITY». Three generations, eight characters: old workers, factory executives and yuppies, their stories melt into the History of China.

Blind Pig Who Wants To Fly follows several people in Indonesia in a series of short segments. Some of these are in the present, some of these are in the past, all resolve around family and acquaintances of a Chinese girl called Linda. Her childhood boyfriend wants to be Japanese, her mother is a former badminton champion, her blind father is a dentist who decides to be «more Indonesian», and his assistant wants to participate in the «Indonesian Idol» even though her voice is hmm, not very cool. And Linda herself knows a good party trick: she puts lit firecrackers in her mouth. Also amongst the patients of the dentist is a non-Chinese gay couple who wants a baby, and through a convoluted set of circumstances they get the aforementioned group of Chinese people to help them.

Daigo Kobayashi is a young married cellist who played in an orchestra that has just been disbanded. Suddenly on the street without a job and no hope for a career, Daigo decides to move back to his hometown with his wife. There he gets a job as a nokanshi, an «encoffiner», an undertaker, the man who ceremoniously washes and dresses the dead bodies and places them in coffins, sending them onto the next world. He is a bureaucrat, a gatekeeper between life and death. Daigo’s work is despised by his wife and all the people around him, but it is through the death that he encounters daily that Daigo finally begins to understand what life is about.

Li Wu-Hsiung is a middle-aged man without a profession or education. He does odd jobs on the quayside and lives with his little daughter in illegal accommodations. The child’s mother left soon after her birth, but the father and daughter survive thanks to their close bond. You could even say they are happy together. It’s only when the girl reaches school age that being together gets tangled up in an unbending bureaucracy. Li cannot prove that he is the father and the child is taken away from him. In the end, he resorts to a drastic act in despair.