What Time Is It There?

Hsiao-Kang (Lee Kang-sheng) sells watches from a stand on a Taipei street, and one day a young woman, Shiang-Chyi (Chen Shiang-Chyi), buys the one on his own wrist because she is leaving for Paris. His home is a grim place, with a mother (Lu Yi-ching) who sets out food for a dead man. Tsai Ming-liang follows the two of them as the distance opens up between Taipei and Paris, each trying to reach the other without speaking.