Louis Vuitton Hawaii International FIlm Festival 2008

Aga left Hengchun for Taipei in the hope of becoming the singer in a band. After ten years of hard work, he returns home, his dream unfulfilled. Tomoko is a Japanese model who is asked to put together a local warm-up band for an upcoming Japanese super star beach concert to be held in Hengchun. However, recruiting the band members proves to be as difficult a task as the search for the famous seven samurai. Together with five other ordinary Hengchun residents with no hopes of fame, they form an unbelievable band.

Loathed by teachers for their unruliness and talent for tall tales (which they use to scam other kids for loose change), they are nicknamed Liar No. 1 and Liar No. 2, and banished to the library to repair books. This becomes their hotbed of storybook adventure, fueling a belief that a nearby marine park is a "portal to hyper-space" - some magical shortcut to adulthood. However, their plan is spoiled by an act of betrayal that leads to the loss of innocence. Over time we learn why the boys want to stop being kids: their respective family situations offer numerous difficulties and challenges. Yang dedicates this bittersweet film "to children who want to rush into adulthood, as well as grownups who wish to be kids again."

The story is about nine high school friends, set during the time of the nationally tragic Taiwan baseball scandal. It follows Yen and Tang and their gang of baseball loving friends through the last year of their high school life. With one fatal misstep, they will learn how fragile life can be, how delicate their friendship really is and how much courage is needed to go on living in a world where everything seems phony and fake.