Twisted Strings

World-renowned director HOU Hsiao-hsien’s first executive produced series.

A series of bizarre deaths happen in Taiping City; the causes of death include old age, illness, suicide, homicide, accident and unknown. Amid this eerie atmosphere, Wu Yue-nu witnesses the deaths of people around her. For her, Taiping City holds all her memories. After a car accident and before she passes away, her conscience floats into the Sailing Castle, where the boundary between the real and the unreal is blurred. There, she meets people she knew, and revisits the scenes that took place in her life. The encounters not only move her to tears but lead her to reconcile with her younger self.