Shooting for the first time in Malaysia after seven features set primarily in Tapei director Tsai Ming-Liang returns to his birthplace with a film unlike any of his prior works. Different in texture mood and feel and featuring a cast of multicultural and multi lingual characters the vivid crowded neon lit streets of Kuala Lumpur come alive as only master director Tsai Ming Liang can capture... After being robbed attacked one night in Kuala Lumpur Hsiao Kang (Lee Kang Sheng) a homeless Chinese man is rescued and taken in by some itinerant workers. One of them Rawang lets him sleep beside him on an old mattress that he found on the street. Later when Chyi a waitress at a coffee shop meets Hsiao Kang she is filled with lustful desire. As Hsiao Kang slowly recovers he finds himself caught between Rawang and Chyi - as well as Chyi's female boss. Meanwhile a heavy haze descends on the city. These men and women and the old mattress lose their way in the haze but find one another...
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