Shot in a surreal style, it focuses on a group of marginalized wanderers with no identities, who inhabit the dark corners of Taipei City.
Chen has characters talk in dreams or debate with each other to reflect the dialectics of reality and fantasy and explore the imaginarium of the homeless.
Chen also infuses the film with various musical elements and has the characters convey their sense of loss and desire for belonging through singing.
Reporter made every effort to awaken Whippersnapper from his dreams, but he remained lost between reality and the dreamscapes, continuously crafting a story without a beginning or an end.
Ah-ming walked through the crevices between buildings, along the desolate riverbank, and ventured into construction sites, crossing paths with numerous people in the underground tunnels.
He met Yong, a man who lost his job after a work injury and played moon lute to express his bitterness.
Wenping made every effort to awaken Whippersnapper from his dreams, but he remained lost between reality and the dreamscapes, continuously crafting a story without a beginning or an end.
However, Whippersnapper remained in a deep slumber, and Ah-ming continued drifting through the city in a makeshift work recruitment vehicle.
[2][3] Mu-tsuen Yen as Ah-ming (阿銘) Li-te Chen as Whippersnapper Chen Yao-chih (少年仔/陳耀志) Yui-wei Zhang as Yong (勇伯) Zhong-ying Lin as Chun (阿春) Jien Lee as Abuji (阿不幾) Ping Juan as Reporter (女記者) Tsung-hsi Lin as Cameraman (攝影師) Hsin-ru Wu as Granddaughter Ruru (孫女如如)[2] The ruins where the homeless reside in the film are located near Tianmu, a well-known affluent neighborhood in Taipei City.
The scenes depicted in the film mostly showcase the overlooked outskirts of Taipei, places that people usually pass by without noticing, such as under the elevated bridge, a waste paper processing plant, riverbanks, underground tunnels, valleys, junkyards, as well as abandoned and unfinished concrete buildings.