The Green, Green Grass of Home

Lu Danian (Kenny Bee) is a substitute teacher sent from Taipei to a village school, where he finds a class of mischievous students waiting for him. Hou Hsiao-hsien lets him settle in slowly, and Lu comes to love the countryside and Chen Suyun (Jiang Ling), a fellow teacher at the school. A city man who arrived as a temporary hire starts to wonder whether he wants to leave.