The tale of a country girl who comes to Taipei with dreams of entering the entertainment industry. A 2-part TV movie and part of groundbreaking series "Eleven Women," this is Edward Yang's directorial debut.

An Zhuo is a shy and polite teenager. His parents are very strict. In addition to normal classes, he has been supervised to learn English, Spanish and violin. Every day is full of classes. However, what he is really interested in is watching the sky with a telescope at night. One day, a super baby from outer space accidentally enters his world. Appears to be in the vein of E.T.

Four vignettes, each set in different decades from the 1950s through the 1980s, deal with protagonists at different stages of life between childhood and young adulthood.