SPENT BULLETS

Two engineering prodigies’ love and despair are unveiled through a road trip from San Francisco to Vegas. It opens with a mysterious suicide but ends with one of the characters’ choice to go on living: to bear the burdens of their fate and the memory of the beloved, like a spent bullet.

Only WU YI-HSIANG knows what happened on the day CHIEH-HENG died.

In memory of Chieh-Heng, Yi-Hsiang and his girlfriend, XIAO-HUA, drive to Las Vegas, the desert where Chieh-Heng mysteriously deceased.

A few years back, Yi-Hsiang, Chieh-Heng, and Xiao-Hua founded an IT company in Silicon Valley, making them young and rich. During their trip, Xiao-Hua receives a call from investor David, who shares a scandalous rumor about Chieh-Heng’s death involving Yi-Hsiang.

Since middle school, Yi-Hsiang and Chieh-Heng had competed in various academic matches. Chieh-Heng excelled in all of them effortlessly, yet life beyond the victory line is not as fulfilling as he once envisioned. Despite Yi-Hsiang’s efforts to help the severely depressed Chieh-Heng, Chieh-Heng insisted that Yi-Hsiang’s disciplining him was his only salvation. Their BDSM relationship started in middle school and endured alongside their career success. Reflecting in the desert, Yi-Hsiang realizes what he shared with Chieh-Heng was more beautiful and precious than love.