Wang Yu-wen

Retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu lives in modern day Taipei, with his three attractive daughters, all of whom are unattached. Soon, each daughter encounters a new man in their lives. When these new relationships blossom, stereotypes are broken and the living situation within the family changes.

In Taipei, four youths face alienation, loneliness, and moments of existential crisis amidst a series of minor crimes.

Five girls grow up in China during the first years of the twentieth century. When they become adults they have to learn that women are almost without rights. Other women close to them are suppressed in the most brutal way. When Mingtao is to marry a mentally deficient but rich man, she and her friends decide to escape and to search for the mythical "garden" where a woman's life is worth living.

A young rebellious woman has an illegitimate child born with autism and tries to raise money to send him to the United States, where he has been accepted for medical treatment and research.

Tsung-che returns to his hometown Jiaoxi, and finds that sex industry was booming there. His disgust for his hometown begins to grow. But one day, he discovers many people there still dedicating themselves to Jiaoxi, and in these people, Tsung-che finds hope for himself and for Jiaoxi…

After his wife dies during childbirth, Ku-cheng leaves his children behind in their rural village while he finds work on a construction site in the city. He develops a relationship with a widow but despite their intimacy, he refuses to remarry.