Five shorts reveal a fictional Hong Kong in 2025, depicting a dystopian city where residents and activists face crackdowns under iron-fisted rule.

Ten Years

When a drunken passenger causes taxi driver Lao Shi to swerve and hit a motorcyclist, he stops to help the victim. As no ambulance arrives he drives him to the hospital, but soon has to face the rules of today's Kafkaesque China. With his family and life endangered, he desperately seeks a way out.

Old Stone

A voyage between a woman searching for the meaning of life and a man holding a book of poems on the longest river of Mainland China.

Crosscurrent

In a small county in Shandong Province in 2008, single mother Wei lives alone with her daughter Miao. A mother's desperate efforts to get her daughter into China's top universities through "college entrance exam immigration" change both of their destinies. However, this has put them into an even more precarious situation than when they started.

Carp Leaping Over Dragon's Gate

One morning, a young amateur photographer parks his motorcycle at the side of the mountain road and wanders through the wilderness, where he comes upon a woman, swaddled in white as though in a cocoon, lying amid the roots of the trees. When he returns in the afternoon, the woman has disappeared, leaving him in a fog. Was it all a dream? Was his mind playing tricks? Yet, there are other men with their stories about an encounter with a mysterious woman. Five men, five histories, five apparitions of a woman. Garbed in stunning, languidly paced cinematography, lush and astonishing sound design, Silent Ghosts meanders through jungle paths and roadways, conjuring up haunted, haunting tales that unfurl just beyond the limits of concrete reality. A voyage through the lives of five men or the five lives of one woman, the film explores the corners of the mind, where gossamer memories emerge and pass by like gauze floating gently downstream, and where first encounters, reunions and farewells merge into one.