成都，重阳节。夏婵梦见自己从高楼之上一跃而下。嘈杂的城市，简陋的违建房里，她似乎只能听到自己和腹中生命的心跳声。数年后的一个夏天，脱胎换骨的她一如既往推杯换盏。拿着她照片的12岁女孩夏小芒，从远方来。夏婵的态度多变，令小芒无所适从。直到她认识了刚刚成年的女孩蒋爱，为她打开了这座城市的另一面。炎热的夏天，事情变得剧烈起来，而康桂珍的出现，预示着这个夏天的结束。
Wright's 1940 original novel followed a poor, 20-year-old black Chicagoan, Bigger Thomas, as he takes a job as a chauffeur for the wealthy, white Dalton family. When Thomas accidentally mits an act of violence against a member of the family, he engages in an elaborate cover-up scheme that begets more crimes. Wright emphasizes throughout the novel that society has been set up to make Thomas what he bees.
師出台灣國寶級燈光大師李龍禹,曾與侯孝賢、陳國富等影人合作,賴國安人到中年對電影仍念念不忘,交出揉合神秘、憂傷、同情與懸疑元素的首部長片。以輪迴轉生為題,解開人倫共生的結,帶出雙薪家庭面臨的問題。鄭人碩、曾珮瑜飾演一對上班族夫妻,不僅要照顧年老失智的父親,二人五歲的兒子竟然直吵著要「回家」!兒子一心只想找尋前世父母,夫妻二人努力營造的幸福家庭,變得一堪不擊。年僅八歲的台日混血童星白潤音首挑大樑,戴上面具避世演出惹人憐愛,前世與今生並存一身,演出收放自如備受讚賞。
