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The leading clown role in a renowned theatre troupe passes on, and is welcomed into the Underworld. As he relives his vivid memories one last time before entering the afterlife, 50 years of art, struggle and love play out against the background of 20th century China’s tumultuous history.

At a Japanese restaurant nestled within the busy streets of Beijing, Li Dong convinces his older brother Li Chun to travel together to the Japanese city of Yanagawa to find and catch up with their childhood sweetheart Liu Chuan.

A Chinese girl named Xingxi travels alone to Alor Setar, a town in Northern Malaysia. As the result of a blown tire, she experiences three variant adventures. She introduces herself to people as different identities with mysterious secrets. Brooke claims herself a traveler in the first adventure, but an anthropologist in the second adventure. In the third adventure, Brooke is a disheartened woman who comes across French writer Pierre. Two lonely travelers become intimate friends. They share their respective insights into life, death, and love. As the enigmatic story of Alor Setar begins to unfold, Brooke tells Pierre the true reason why she has come. Nature divulges her sought for love with the magical Blue Tears.

They do everything together: they read poems, have breakfast, see friends, argue with each other, comfort each other, share their childhood and past memories. With imagination, they introspect in solitude and rest in intimacy.

A muggy summer of 2009, reality and memory tangled together, water from the canal soaked everyone in those vanishing days.

Gu Qing, a silent tailor in her 30s, lives in a small town in Southern China by her own. Her life is mundane and repetitive, until one day, her niece Sun Yue comes from afar and starts to learn the craftsmanship from her.

The life of a family of three was changed by the diagnosis of terminal liver cancer by his father Weiming. The seemingly peaceful family is shrouded in haze. Mother Mu Ling carried the house, but could not get the father and son's understanding. The son Yiming received the admission letter from the American university, but he dared not tell his parents. He knew that his mother was not easy, but he did not want to show too much concern. Father Weiming secretly made a choice to change the fate of the family in the mist.

2064, the human body no longer has secrets. The record for the men's 100-meter dash set more than 50 years ago remains unbroken. 23-year-old Mara is preparing for the next Olympics until a gunshot shatters the highway order like a curse.