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廢物 = The losers

Shiou is a struggling stage actor in Taipei who works odd jobs to make ends meet. Frustrated, he returns to his Greater Kaohsiung suburb hometown, Meinong, only to be greeted with a disapproving look from his aging father, who claims that those who stay in town are either drug addicts or jobless. While trying to learn about his farmer father's trade and grow tomatoes on the family farm, Shiou meets an old girlfriend, Mei-shia. Now married, Mei-shia lives an affluent but spiritless life in a mansion along with her teenage son Ah-pan, as the husband and father, Tian-jin, spends most of the time away in China, accumulating wealth. Soon, the flame is rekindled between the failed actor and the bored wife. Ah-pan, a typically troubled teen, befriends classmate Yu-mei, a girl from a poor household barely sustained by her Vietnamese mother. Unable to find work after a serious workplace injury, Yu-mei's father has been in and out of jail for stealing to support his drug habit. The newly found friendship between the two turns into a romance, then a romance in jeopardy when Yu-mei finds out about Ah-pan's ketamine abuse, which offers a quick escape from the dead-end mentality of small town life. Meanwhile, real-estate speculators have been systematically buying the fertile land of Meinong, aiming at property development. Shiou's family farm is no exception from the development craze, and industrialist Tian-jin is eager to get his hands on it.--taipeitimes.com

DVD Video, Chinese, 2014
飛行國際視聽股份有限公司, Taibei Shi, 2014