Episode list

Eight stories from different filmmakers chronicle 24 hours in Taipei.

A writer plagued by the problems of his time damns today's society for his own personal, and self-induced, hang-ups. His negative attitude changes to a positive one when he meets a girl that inspires him to overcome his writer's block.

On the eve of the conscription the young man Sasha known as Jagger decides to spend the modest savings for fashionable gym shoes. In a random way gym shoes bring him to the girl Amira with whom he spends night. Next morning it becomes clear that the girl has a nine-year-old son Mitya. The boy suffers from autism and still some mental disease. Amira asks Jagger and his friend about small service: to help to bring the son to orphanage.

After the death of Seth Ratanlal, his only son Maddy living abroad hands over the responsibility of managing rituals relating to funeral, to an event management company. In this situation the professionalism seems dominating emotions.

Life takes a perplexing turn when Patty May, Ms. May to her science students, takes an early retirement. As the only witness to a very strange event, she finds herself the caretaker of an abandoned dog, Scout, and decides to make it her mission to find out why the dog was left behind. When the locals get wind of Patty's story on social media, she is inundated with a cornucopia of strange theories and wild accusations from nosy neighbors, total strangers, and well-intentioned family and friends.After a summer of chasing vague leads and many perplexing local characters, Patty comes to accept, in life, humans are not always what they seem and not all mysteries are meant to be solved.

Michael Blanco arrives in Los Angeles. He dreams of becoming a movie star. There are 900,000 others like him in that city.