For decades the great Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang has been directing exquisite examinations of alienation, isolation, and the fleeting beauty of human connection featuring his muse Lee Kang-sheng. This is one of his best, sparest, most intimate works. Lee once again stars as a variation on himself, wandering through a lonely urban landscape and seeking treatment in Hong Kong for a chronic illness; at the same time, a young Laotian immigrant...

Lucas travels to visit his sister, who lives in a remote town in Southern Chil. Beside the ocean shrouded in the wintry mist, he meets Antonio, a boatswain on a local fishing boat. When an intense romance blossoms between them, their strength, their independence, and their adulthood become immovable, just like the ebb and flow of the tide.