Nurse.
Can you please raise the bed up?
I want to see my leg.
Don't worry.
The diagnosis report will include photos.
We will provide you a copy.
What the hell is that?
Don't pretend politeness
and speak so impolitely.
My husband just wants to see his leg.
What's that to do with photos?
Excuse me.
Mrs. Zheng.
Can I have a word?
Mr. Zheng's condition was untreated for too long.
If we don't amputate
there's a risk of death.
Amputate?
Is there no other way?
Mrs. Zheng.
This is something I've had to tell many patients' families.
Keep the leg and lose your life
or keep your life
and lose the leg.
If you feel uncomfortable
let us know anytime.
We can give you drugs
to let you sleep through it.
Alright?
I'm fine
I'll stay awake.
Great.
While you're awake
let me explain the details.
Usually
our amputation surgery
employs this electric saw.
In one second
it vibrates 1,000 times.
But I personally feel
it doesn't cut well.
It's not smooth.
Well...
Today we're using this stainless steel saw.
It cuts great.
Very smooth.
We'll be using this saw to assist you today.
If it's fine with you.
We will begin.
Here
scalpel.
Doctor.
Put me to sleep after all
midazolam 5mg.
Here
Mr. Zheng.
Please think back to
something pleasant.
Let's count to ten.
Something pleasant.
One.
Honestly speaking
all pleasant things are in the past
a past that is often disappearing.
It's only when I feel pain and reluctance that I learn
what the pleasant things actually were.
Life always seems to be that way.
We are like train passengers watching scenery.
In the moment, you think the scenery isn't beautiful.
But once you travel further away.
You realize
we've already passed the beauty.
We can only carry the sorrow and remember.
If the bed...
If there aren't enough beds this week.
Ask for some from General Surgery
I received a critical condition alert.
Wait a moment.
Wait?
Why'd you tell me to come immediately?
I was performing, I couldn't even change clothes.
Calm down first.
Mr. Zheng's septicemia
is more serious than anticipated.
Dr. Gao said your condition isn't good.
He said you need to intubate.
He said if you intubate
there's a very high chance
you'll never wake up.
But if you don't intubate
you won't live past tonight.
Zi-han.
Will you intubate?
What do you mean my granny loves getting sick?
No.
It's serious.
I mean this time it's really serious.
Can you not be like this?
I'm at the hospital, come see for yourself
I'm saying I'll...
I'll call you later.
Miss, let me help.
Mr. Zheng, we're getting in the ambulance.
May I ask if you're religious?
Mrs. Zheng.
Are you religious?
What he means is
when we get to the funeral home
the ambulance plays music for the deceased.
If you're Christian
we'll play a hymn.
For Buddhists, it's scripture
ls there dance music?
We have a dance version of the Great Compassion Mantra.
Brother.
Open your eyes.
Does this lady's manner and dress
look like she listens to the Great Compassion Mantra?
You should play
a waltz or something.
You mean like
the Blue Danube?
Thank you.
We meet by chance.
It was a simple favor.
As you climb a thousand peaks.
Godspeed.
Brother.
Please turn the car around
I want to go back to the hospital.
I don't know what love at first sight means.
I only remember the first time I saw you.
I was pulled hypnotically into your world.
Do you still remember my senior high classmate John?
The first time I knew you
was at his photo studio.
Besides the shutter and aperture
photography requires two perceptive eyes.
But that's still only the level of the common photographer.
I also possess a heart that is unlike others.
This photo feels so natural.
You know her?
This is a photo studio
not a dating service.
I was only thinking
she's so beautiful
she must have someone already.
Unfortunately
she does not.
Well?
Should I introduce you?
You know my character.
I don't get close to others so easily.
Her name is Yu-ying Qian.
She's an only child.
She won the folk dance competition in junior high.
I also won a writing competition in junior high
ls dancing related to writing?
Of course not.
But we're both champions.
Want to come closer?
You're soaked.
I'm fine.
I'm used to it
and we've only just met.
Miss Qian.
I don't know if I may have the honor
of asking you be to my dance partner?
I don't know if you have that honor.
But I can give it some consideration.
Of course.
"Waltz" in German means "to turn."
Men and women dancing.
Heads in the heavens.
Feet upon the earth.
Rotating about each other.
Supporting each other's bodies.
In the midst of endless turning
I truly realized.
You were the dance partner I was searching for.
Ladies
and gentlemen.
Next up will be
the International Amateur Modern.
Dance Finals.
First team.
Let's welcome.
Number 227.
Zi-han Zheng.
Yu-ying Qian.
Soon after.
We joined an important international competition.
Although we didn't win the championship
the applause of the packed crowd
filled us with confidence for the future.
This all happened in the brief time since we met.
I scarcely believed happiness could come so easily.
So easily that.
I started to doubt what happiness was.
I'm going to ask you three questions.
You have to answer honestly.
Absolutely honest.
Am I your perfect dance partner?
Do you need to ask?
Then
will you take me to Blackpool Dance Festival?
No doubt.
Are you serious about me?
Is this a proposal?
Then you have to tell me
what's the benefit of marrying you.
That's four questions.
Besides my warm personality and good looks.
I have something no other men have.
What?
My mom died over a decade ago.
If you marry me.
You'll never have mother-in-law problems.
How old are you?
This year
28
Who else is in your family?
Only my father
is left now.
Only your father.
Your father.
What's his work?
Morn.
Let me go out some fruit.
Take your time.
Morn, I'll come with you.
Miss, what's the matter?
I'm looking for Dr. Gao
Dr. Gao's shift has ended.
You're that.
Mrs. Zheng.
I was Mrs. Zheng.
Now I'm Miss Qian.
Miss Qian
Dr. Gao's shift really is over.
Get me a doctor of the same seniority as Dr. Gao
to help me.
Okay.
Please wait for me.
We need a little help.
Right.
Thank you.
Are these senior doctors?
Why are they dressed like doormen?
Miss
ls there an issue?
What's all this?
Are you surrounding me
to intimidate me?
No one's intimidating you.
We just want to understand the issue
at hand here.
My husband died three hours ago.
He was amputated before he died
I only wanted to come retrieve
his leg.
Our hospital follows a fixed protocol.
Therefore.
Please go home and wait for a notice.
A notice?
My husband's lying in the ambulance downstairs.
Is it so hard to give me an answer now?
You're determined to stay.
Give me the leg.
We'll call the police.
Officer.
This woman's been making a scene.
It's seriously disturbing peace in the ward.
No, no
I wasn't called in for this.
The call was for adverse possession of property.
Officer
I made the call.
You move quick.
I called before I came upstairs.
Who called the police?
About someone making a scene at the hospital?
Our hospital called you.
Rookie, shouldn't you be on drunk-driving patrol?
What are you doing here?
Old-timer.
Shouldn't you be in a bar squeezing Vietnamese chicks?
What brings you here?
Look at the balls on you.
Balls so big you're tripping over them.
Senior.
Please be more professional.
I'm currently on duty.
Miss.
Please show your ID.
What ID?
I got here first.
Let me finish talking.
Miss.
May I ask
what happened
to put you in so much pain?
When my husband stayed in the hospital
the doctor told me he needed to amputate.
If he didn't amputate, there was a risk of death.
I had no choice in the end.
I let them saw off the leg.
Three hours ago.
He died.
I know this hospital
is full of medical malpractice.
But life and death are ruled by fate
I don't blame them
I really don't blame them
I just want to ask
if they can return that leg to me
and reunite it with his body.
But they're not even willing to look
and want me to go home and wait.
Senior.
They've gone too far.
Junior.
Calm down.
Let's clear up the situation first.
Messy Hair
ls what the lady said true?
No, no.
We never said we wouldn't look.
It's just the time is so late.
We can't do anything right now.
Why've you been trying to brush me off?
I've been matter-of-fact.
Do I look like I'm brushing you off?
Even your hair looks like it's brushing me off.
Officer.
You can't just one-sidedly believe her.
Isn't she making a scene right now?
Senior.
You believe what Messy Hair's saying?
Whether she's making a scene or not
you need to have more empathy
and understanding for families.
Officer.
Let's go.
Officer.
- You're kidding. - Senior.
You're kidding.
Senior, no.
Didn't you say we need empathy?
Officer.
Why am I the one handcuffed?
Miss.
We sympathize deeply with your loss.
But in our official duties
if you continued making a scene at a hospital
we'd have a problem.
Senior.
What should we do now?
Junior.
Isn't it obvious?
By our official duties
we need to remove her from the scene.
Didn't we do that?
And we did it brilliantly.
But after leaving the crime scene.
She escaped custody.
We pursued without success.
We both witnessed it.
Officer.
What should I do now?
Junior.
In this situation
what would you do?
Senior.
I'd like to hear your ideas.
In the hospital.
The people who breathe
stay on the 1st floor and above.
Those who don't breathe stay in the basement.
To find that leg
you'd go to the basement.
Where would the leg be?
Wouldn't you know
by checking the records?
It's that simple.
I'm telling this
only to you.
No one else is listening.
I'm listening.
Who are you?
I'm an ambulance driver.
Can I help you?
Mr. Zheng's body is still in my car.
Go.
You can enter the venue.
That day was a very important day.
After today
we'd have a chance to compete in England.
But I didn't show up.
I know you must have been very hurt.
I should start explaining from the day before the competition.
Fuck.
This guy's badass.
His company went bankrupt
but he took his last dollars to the casino.
Classmate.
Capa is my idol.
The coolest thing isn't how many war photos he took.
It's that he was tall and handsome.
Elegant as fuck.
Tons of girls.
Is that so?
And he had a quote:
If your pictures aren't good enough
you aren't close enough.
What's that mean?
It means
if your photos aren't good enough
that means you're too far from the action.
I knew it.
That's great.
John.
You know the biggest lesson I got from this book?
What?
I've got ten grand on me.
Do you know where
I can turn this into twenty grand?
Some say, you can climb your whole life
and fall in an instant.
Once you start down a crooked path
the gates of hell open wide.
I remember soon after coming here
as those false casino chips piled before me.
I realized how foolish
my step-by-step efforts seemed.
I thought I could buy you a car.
We could buy a house.
A house with many rooms.
Full of our children.
When I came out
I had not only twice what I entered with.
But five times.
Almost twenty times more.
Altogether 1.83 million.
Thank you, I don't smoke.
These are for people who don't smoke.
Sir, what do you do?
Ballroom dancing.
Ballroom dance.
Did you know?
I also love ballroom dance.
I didn't know.
First time here.
Yeah.
Incredible.
Winning so much your first time.
Just luck.
Want to play again?
Play what?
Texas hold 'em.
Here?
Of course not.
Interested?
I'm busy later.
No problem.
If you're busy, you can go.
You can barely fit the money in your bag.
Want a new bag?
No.
This one's fine.
Young man.
What's your name?
My surname's Zheng.
Mr. Zheng.
This is my card.
You'll be back in two days.
This must cost five, six thousand.
Don't worry.
We'll perform tomorrow.
Think of this as an early celebration.
Why do you seem strange?
Do I?
You do.
You seem elsewhere.
Yes.
My mind was elsewhere.
Because I was thinking
about the man in the casino saying.
"You'll be back in two days."
I didn't need two days.
I wanted to go right now.
Sign here.
Leave your ID cards here.
In three days, put down 6 million
for this check.
After leaving the casino, I didn't know where to go.
But my legs brought me unthinkingly to the contest venue.
When I arrived.
I saw you still waiting alone for me.
I suddenly felt ashamed.
Why did I return for you?
I should go wander the earth
change my name
and forget you forever.
I hid in a rural motel for three, four days.
Time was slow.
Like the world had stopped.
How are you doing?
I'd rather not think about it.
Young man.
Want some company?
No.
Grandma.
May I ask you
ls there someone here
named Zheng?
Handsome guy
staying here.
No.
Only Chen.
Chen?
Think back again.
He just called my friend
telling me to deliver his money here.
No.
No?
You're speaking carelessly.
When I asked neighbors, they said he was here.
The neighbors wouldn't know.
Think carefully.
That's right.
Think carefully.
His mother asked us to deliver money.
That's right.
We aren't messing around.
Let us look upstairs.
Save us the trouble
we're just delivering money.
No
I'm not lying.
Why did the auntie next door say he was here?
She didn't say.
She doesn't know him.
Grandma.
Can I use your bathroom?
I'm telling you.
There's no bathroom upstairs.
Jumping was the stupidest thing lever did in my life.
I destroyed myself
and destroyed our future.
When I awoke, I saw
a teardrop on your cheek.
I wanted to tell you many things
but besides the guilt in my heart
I couldn't say anything.
If time could return to that moment
I would tell you I'm sorry.
Tell you.
I only wanted to be with you.
Only wanted you to live happily.
But I didn't know such a simple thing
could be so hard.
Thinking back now.
For the two of us, this was both the worst
and our best moment.
The next day, you brought me to your home.
I kneeled in front of your parents.
Not because I was asking for 6 million dollars
but out of deep remorse
not to mention
I had married their daughter
without notifying them.
All right.
Stop kneeling.
Let's eat.
I'm looking for Dr. Gao.
Our outpatient hours are over.
It's fine, let her in.
You're still after the same thing, right?
Yes, Dr. Gao
I'm still after the same thing.
From our hospital's perspective
everything belongs to the patients
including medical records
or the patient's parts or organs.
Those are all patients'
We have no reason to hold them.
So you making a scene yesterday
was actually pointless.
Dr. Gao.
I only want my husband's leg returned.
I know.
This Taiwanese custom of
burying the body intact or whatever
I don't believe in it.
Dr. Gao.
I only want my husband's leg returned.
Hello. Pathology?
This is Dr. Gao.
Can you help me find
a Mr. Zheng's
pathology report?
Okay. Thank you
I'll wait for your call.
I'm going to eat
I'll come with you.
What for?
I don't know when I'll see you again.
Am I disturbing your meal?
Yes.
It's better if you sit.
Thank you.
This is my first time eating with a patient's family.
With a dead man's family too.
You've got humor.
I'm a sensible person.
I feel like
you and your husband
didn't get along too well.
Why do you say that?
I saw his medical record.
He was sick for a long time.
But seems like no one looked after him.
Sorry.
I shouldn't have asked.
Hello.
Pathology.
Okay.
Got it.
Miss Qian, this is Director Yang.
Our hospital forbids
non-employees from entering.
But I told them about you.
So...
When they're done here
hurry up and take your husband's leg.
Mr. Zheng's specimen is 8503482.
Jul-05.
Second shelf.
Sorry
ls there an issue?
5503482
Right?
Right.
Second shelf.
Can't find it.
Check every shelf.
Okay.
What the hell.
Why aren't things put where they should be?
Director.
What's going on?
These two days' specimens
should all be on this shelf.
The specimens we sent down should have slides.
Of course.
I don't get what you're saying.
What specimen slides?
What's that mean?
Your husband's cut-off leg is called
a specimen.
Slices of a specimen are put into glass slides.
So you're saying
my husband's leg vanished
and changed into glass?
Your husband's leg wouldn't change into glass.
I think
maybe
there were problems when it was being delivered.
What problems?
Yeah, what problems?
Director, I want to know too.
We sent the specimen from Surgery
directly to Pathology.
If there's a problem, it's with Pathology.
Don't throw blame left and right, Director.
I'm not throwing blame, just clarifying.
Technician Wang.
Bring me the past few days' forms.
Okay.
Yes.
It's July 5.
Sent directly
from Surgery.
We signed it.
But.
Miss Qian.
Before your husband was operated on
you already signed the consent form.
What consent form?
The consent form asked you
if you wanted to keep the specimen.
You checked "No".
Are you not giving it to me
because you can't find it
or are you not giving it to me
because I signed "No"?
Is there a difference?
Of course it's different
I want it back now.
Have you eaten at a restaurant before?
What about it?
When you finish chewing a chicken bone
and the waiter cleans your table
and asks you
if he can clear away your chicken bones
you say "Yes"
after he's taken them
you turn and tell him to bring the bones back
you want to chew it more
you want to taste it again.
Does that seem right to you?
Thank you.
Dr. Gao.
I could no longer dance.
The day the doctor told us
we were both very quiet.
To comfort me
you out the hair you'd been growing for twenty years
and told me you didn't want to compete either.
We searched for a place to teach dance lessons.
Fortunately.
Your dad, besides paying my debt
also provided us a classroom.
He even lent us money.
At first
we hesitated.
Did we need such a big classroom?
But in the end, we reserved it.
This was not only where we danced.
To save money
we also lived here.
During that time, I witnessed many different lifestyles.
I realized how living wasn't easy.
I started to worry about our future.
Hello.
This is our new ballroom dance studio.
Please visit if you have time.
Hello.
This is our new ballroom dance studio.
Please visit if you have time.
See our classes on the back.
I'm sore here.
- Here. - Yeah.
Good work.
You had it tough, running around outside.
You had it tougher.
Zi-han.
I heard a joke today.
What joke?
There's a bird couple
on a treetop.
Below the tree
is a flock of grazing sheep.
Suddenly one of the sheep slips and falls.
The bird wife
says.
"Husband.
It's wet down there!"
Are you flirting with me?
That joke's so old.
Then have you heard
the one about the frog and the kangaroo?
One day, a frog and a kangaroo
went to a brothel.
In a short time
the kangaroo came back out.
He heard the frog in the next room.
"One two three hey."
The kangaroo was envious
and thought "Wow".
The next day.
The kangaroo met the frog
and asked him.
"Brother Frog.
You're amazing, going all night."
The frog told the kangaroo.
"Shit."
"I jumped all night and couldn't land on the bed."
Zi-han.
Aren't you worried?
Worried about what?
We have so few students.
No.
It'll get better
ls there something unsettled between us?
No.
Something just reminded me of you.
I wonder if I could ask a favor.
What is it?
I recently opened a dance studio with my wife.
Business is slow.
I remember
you said you liked dancing.
You stopped dancing?
I think
if you like to dance
my wife is really a good teacher.
I believe you also have
many friends who dance.
If you don't mind
give us a try.
When people reach a dead end
they'll dig any hole to escape.
That's the situation that made me
ask Mr. Chen from the casino.
He promised nothing.
But in a few weeks
students gradually increased.
Today, two more.
The next day, four.
The students seemed refined.
Not covered in tattoos.
Most had their own dance partner.
The classroom became more crowded.
You were happily busy
and even hired an assistant.
Keep smiling.
Later, I called Mr. Chen to thank him.
He didn't take my calls after that.
Long ago, someone told me.
Life is rarely smooth sailing.
As soon as you ride one wave
you need to race for the next one.
Only those who seize their chance
can create their own turning points.
My first turning point after the classroom's success
was the foreclosed home.
Can I help you?
I'm the homeowner.
The homeowner.
The tenant is over there.
Take it easy.
The homeowner.
Boss.
The homeowner.
Mr. Homeowner, hello
I'm the tenant.
Make yourself at home.
No.
This house
I bought it.
Are you all
moving out?
Did you
bring it yet?
It is the...
Relocation fee.
No.
I already bought this house.
How could there be a relocation fee?
Young man.
You don't know the unspoken rules?
What rules?
You can look it up online.
Where online?
Ask Brother Google.
"House roaches."
What do you know about foreclosed homes?
I did my research.
There're two types.
One with handover, one without.
No handover is cheaper
I bought one with no handover.
So it...
How much did you pay?
8 million.
How much do they want?
2.5 million.
What's the market value?
10 million.
How many people do they have?
About ten.
You're dressed so neatly
and brought a gift
I thought you were polite
but your relocation fee
is even less than your husband's.
We only have this much.
If you don't take it
and don't move.
I still can't give you
the number you want.
If anyone knew I took such a small amount
how could I show my face in society?
Fuck you, you wanna die?
How can we show our face?
Fuck you, you wanna die?
Brother.
Bringing so many friends here each day
must cost a lot.
It's like a choir in here.
I really don't have that much money.
If you take it and leave.
One day, I'll sell this house make a lot of money
and gift it to you.
In this business
we'll be seeing more of each other.
Brother.
If we can treat each other
like friends
wouldn't that be better?
Yu-ying.
If...
We got into the foreclosure business
the two of us
wouldn't it be like The Return of the Condor Heroes?
The guy lost his arm.
The girl was raped.
Have you even read that book?
Miss Qian.
You can't keep following me.
This is our place of work.
I must ask you to leave.
Because of you
I didn't finish my lunch
I have more surgeries this afternoon.
Can you have mercy?
I can wait here until your surgery's over.
What'll you do when my surgery's over?
Didn't you sign the form
saying you waived the specimen?
I need to get my husband's leg back
I need his leg before he's buried.
I'm an orthopedic doctor
but the doctor you need is a psychiatrist.
(Ask for Qian Wang,B2)
Is Qian Wang here?
He's next door.
Next door
ls Qian Wang here?
He's downstairs.
Downstairs.
Mr. Wang.
Are you Mr. Wang?
Dr. Gao asked me to find you.
What is it?
My husband was amputated.
But he died soon after
I want to retrieve his leg.
Dr. Gao told me to find you.
Go ask Pathology.
Pathology couldn't find it.
Mr. Wang.
Don't follow me
Mr. Wang.
Enough.
Mr. Wang, can you help me?
Please.
Mr. Wang.
When was his surgery?
Jul-05.
Only two days ago.
According to hospital regulations
amputated specimens
are kept at Pathology
for at least two weeks.
When did he pass away?
Yesterday.
Be careful.
Your husband
is still active in this world
seeing his friends
listening to them.
He could even
be talking to you.
You simply can't hear it.
Right now
you must
avoid dishonesty
and deceit.
Let me ask.
Did you sign the consent form waiving the specimen?
Then you should stand by
what you've said.
But they didn't follow hospital procedure either
and lost it.
You can't use others' faults
to ignore your own faults.
So...
What should I do?
What should you do?
Go home.
Arrange your husband's affairs.
Forget that leg.
Dr. Gao didn't send me here
to hear you say this.
Miss.
I'm just a janitor.
How should I know what Dr. Gao
wanted me to tell you?
Pathology
must have seen your waiver
and sent it down directly.
But
you regret it now.
Mr. Wang.
You look like
you understand the world more
than the doctors and nurses upstairs.
Do you know why we regret things?
Miss.
You don't need to split us into upstairs-downstairs.
Everyone has done
and understands
different things.
Let me ask.
Why do you regret it?
I signed the waiver
because after my husband was amputated
we could still spend many decades together.
Compared to those years together
that leg
isn't worth anything.
I never thought
he'd be gone immediately.
That was your vision
not necessarily his.
Mr. Wang.
All the stuff sent from Pathology
gets piled up here.
Usually, on Fridays
a medical waste truck
comes to pick it up.
But
it just came by three days ago.
SO
If your husband's leg came down in the past two days
you have a chance.
What if I don't find it?
If you don't find it
it'll go to a medical waste disposal plant
and be incinerated within 84 hours
incinerated in 84 hours?
Incinerated in 84 hours.
All their trucks
have GPS.
Whether they're eating or shitting
our computers monitor it
so they can't trick us.
You want to search?
Yes.
Okay.
Put these on, then.
What are these for?
You'll know in a moment.
Do you have new ones?
Cleaner ones?
You think we are a department store?
When you go in, I won't join you.
When you go in, you'll see.
Yellow bags and red bags.
Don't look inside
the yellow bags.
Those are recycled.
You can look into
the red bags.
When you open them
you'll see many small bags.
Never open
the small bags.
They're filled with formalin.
Even if it doesn't splash on you
if you breathe too much
we'll be holding a
double funeral
for husband and wife.
Then how do I search?
By touch.
Feel the bags
by shape and size
and you'll know.
What?
I'll slap your ass.
You're not afraid?
I'm afraid.
You're not afraid?
I'm afraid.
But she took the kids to compete.
She won't be back until late.
Louder.
Don't stop.
Get the fuck out.
Did you use my bed?
It's not what you think.
Did you?
No.
I suspected this for a long time.
I just didn't want to believe it.
You only
wash my feet
telling me lewd jokes.
I was so naive
flirting along with your jokes.
You laugh like I'm nothing.
But with other women?
You said it's not what I think.
What is it then?
This photo
is of a couple
who came here for a wedding photo after the notary.
I was even their witness.
None of their families and friends came.
It was a somewhat cold scene.
But though it was a bit sad.
I still captured their smiles.
The two gazing into the distance.
From their expressions
the distance doesn't seem so far away.
I also feel honored to have known this couple.
This was a really good shot.
Good shots don't sell anymore.
Photo studios now
are all run by uneducated middle-aged women
who only know how to say.
"Come on."
"Lift your head."
"Yes."
"Smile."
The people in their photos
all Smile like idiots.
How's your dance studio?
Great.
And the wife?
Also great.
After that incident.
You didn't mention divorce.
You kept the dance studio going.
But you moved out.
Besides teaching in the classroom
you started teaching in the dance hall.
The dance hall had good male dancers.
You would share a moment of happiness.
I used to think dance
was all about the steps
raising your hands
turning.
These past few years
I slowly realized
dance is not only the posture.
It is the spilling of emotion.
It is love
and hate.
Anger
and sorrow.
I had this realization
only after I stopped dancing.
Director Yang.
It was so cold
that I felt faint
and got confused.
Let me try again
I'll find it for sure this time.
Miss Qian.
You've already broken our hospital rules.
Technically speaking
we can't help you open these bags.
All I can do
is let you to take one bag back to your husband.
Director Yang.
Are you trying to get in my way?
Women shouldn't be hard on women.
Miss Qian.
You don't need to tell me these
outdated feminist slogans.
I peer down a microscope every day.
You can't tell men from women under the microscope.
President.
The secretary told me today
about this matter
I was very shocked.
Director Yang.
How long have you been working at this hospital?
About 15 years.
How could such a huge mistake occur?
This family's in so much pain.
Isn't it our physician's duty
to relieve the people's suffering?
President.
When my husband was hospitalized.
I did sign the amputation waiver.
But now I regret it
I want it back.
I want to return it to his body.
No problem.
You don't need to explain.
Life is long.
We all have some regrets.
But truthfully speaking
even if we get your husband's leg back
and reattach it
it wouldn't do much good.
After all, it's been severed
and soaked in chemicals.
Wouldn't you agree?
Speaking for all my hospital colleagues
we offer our deepest apologies.
Forget this leg.
I'll get you a trunk of the finest wood
and make you the best prosthetic leg.
Truthfully.
Yesterday
my colleagues informed me of your situation.
I wanted to
find time to speak with you.
But my morning was busy
I forgot.
But I privately called
my sculptor friend in the mountains.
I asked him to reserve
wood that was intended to carve the goddess Guanyin.
That wood
is from a century-old temple
that renovated its beams.
Very beautiful.
Very rare.
If you don't mind
we'll use this wood
to carve a leg for Mr. Zheng
and fulfill your wish.
Mr. Zhu.
Thanks for your work.
Hello.
This is Miss Qian.
Miss Qian
welcome.
Miss Qian.
We took photos from Pathology
of your husband's leg
to make a 3D model
for Mr. Zhu
so he can sculpt custom measurements.
The pathology photos
were swollen and black before amputation.
Yes.
Mr. Zhu
is a famous artist.
He only needs to see a 3D model
to recreate in his mind
your husband's leg when it was healthy.
We can complete it tomorrow.
And then
your husband's leg
toenails
skin
will all be precisely represented.
It will look brand new.
President.
Miss Qian is here.
Director Yang is here too.
President
I'm here representing Pathology for Mr. Zheng's leg.
You can smell the aroma.
If this wasn't accompanying your husband's body.
I'd want to keep it here as an art display.
This leg
looks more like my husband's leg than my husband's leg.
Beautiful.
Really beautiful.
Miss Qian.
May I ask
regarding your husband's funeral
ls there anything else we can assist with?
President.
Mr. Zheng's funeral is only awaiting this leg.
We can attach it this afternoon.
After that, there's only the funeral procession
cremation
and interment.
In that case.
Let me know when it happens.
Okay.
When it's time, I'll go
pay my respects to Mr. Zheng.
Will this leg
be cremated with my husband?
Of course.
When this leg is returned to your husband's body
they'll be cremated together.
After it's cremated
won't this leg
become ash?
Miss Qian.
Human beings
after we're cremated
don't we all become ash?
No.
When humans
are cremated, we become bone ash.
When wood burns, it becomes only ash.
Bone ash and ash are not the same.
Miss Qian.
What...
What do you mean, the ashes are different?
Isn't it all ash?
When some people die
we burn a Benz
burn a mansion
burn servants for them in the afterlife.
Isn't it all ash?
It's not the same.
A Benz and a mansion
are external things.
Bone ash is our selves.
This leg is the same as a Benz.
It's a burnt offering.
It's not originally his.
What is this bullshit?
I used a piece of the finest wood
to carve your husband's stink-ass leg.
Now you say
you don't want it?
You want to me to display it
in my office
for visitors
to ask
"so pretty.
Whose leg is it?"
How the hell do I answer?
This isn't my husband's leg.
Look
here are your choices.
One.
Face the facts
and go burn your husband.
When he reincarnates
he'll grow a new leg.
Two.
You take this leg
and put it with your husband's body.
When it's cremated
this will all be over.
Three.
Stick your husband in a freezer.
Wait a while
and see if one day
he starts
sprouting
a new leg.
President.
I'll see you in court then.
Ma'am.
When we opened clinics in the past
we'd hang a plaque with a philanthropic inscription
to express our
charity in thought and deed.
But now, when we open hospitals
there's no plaque.
Do you know what's behind the wall now?
An army of
ruthless lawyers.
Get this woman out of here.
Then take this.
My God.
Take this filthy thing out of my sight.
Hello.
Yeah
I am.
He died two days ago
ls something wrong?
Health insurance.
How long has it been?
About
half a month.
Has your leg
been injured before?
In the past
I had a car accident.
I think you'd better get a hospital exam.
Doctor.
Tell me.
It's fine
I can handle it.
If you want my honest opinion.
With your situation.
It could be bone cancer.
Will I need amputation?
Mr. Zheng.
Bone cancer treatment is
very advanced now.
It's rare that amputation is needed.
But surgery to clean out the disease
is definitely necessary.
What are you saying?
You're talking about a crime.
There are 2 kinds of insurance cards.
One has a photo, the other doesn't.
Mine happens to have no photo.
If there's no photo, they still need to see your national ID
John.
When you see the doctor.
Besides your national ID photo
does anyone care if the rest is real or fake?
I'm telling you.
Health insurance cards
are impossible to forge.
But national IDs
aren't hard.
Even if I give you a totally clean health record
and apply for insurance
you'll still need to wait before getting a checkup.
Is it fine to drag out your illness?
The doctor said my symptoms
only just started.
Cancer isn't some fast-acting disease.
If I wait 3 or 6 months
it should be fine.
I think you've gone crazy.
You know I haven't been doing well the past few years.
Not well?
Don't you always say you're doing great?
John.
You know I'm a charming man.
Have you ever heard a charming man
say he's not doing well?
This is the first time I learned you're a charming man
John.
What are you doing?
I'm in the dressing room.
Doing what in the dressing room?
Adjusting my look in the dressing room.
Why'd you shave like that?
Aren't we taking an ID photo?
Sit here.
Do we need to do all this
for a fake ID photo?
My dad opened this studio.
My dad's named John.
Strictly speaking, I should be John ll.
I always thought this art would never be replaced.
I never thought one day it would end.
This camera hasn't been used in over ten years
and now it's being used to shoot your fake ID.
Come here
I've finished it.
When I tell you to press.
Press down.
Press.
Who're you looking for?
I want to make an ID.
What?
I want to make an ID.
Come in.
National ID photo.
You want it exact or OK-exact?
What's the difference?
"Exact" can pass most police spot checks.
With OK-exact
you can get a bank notarization
or marry your mistress.
OK-exact.
It went smoother than I thought
John got me a clean health report.
I applied to an insurance company.
The company said
the insurance policy
would take effect after 90 days.
In other words
I couldn't go to a clinic for 90 days
to get any cancer exam.
After that, the only thing left to do was wait.
I didn't eat much each day.
I spent a lot of time walking.
I felt very calm.
Sometimes I'd pass John's place.
We didn't talk as much as we used to.
It didn't mean we had a falling out.
It meant that during this time
John was waiting alongside me.
But waiting
is not an easy task.
What's wrong?
It's nothing.
Want to see a doctor?
It's nothing.
You call this nothing?
Take a look in the mirror.
I'll go with you.
When a relationship comes to a deadlock
the best solution is for one party
to evoke sympathy in the other.
I never thought of getting your sympathy.
I only wanted
to quietly do something for you.
I don't remember what happened that night.
When I awoke
I was already in the hospital.
How did I get here?
I taught class all day yesterday.
I didn't see you there.
I visited you in the evening.
You didn't wake no matter how I tried.
Why would you do this?
You're sick but didn't see a doctor.
Are you still bitter?
I'm not bitter
but I thought you'd still be sour.
Hello.
Nurse.
Can you raise the bed up?
I want to see my leg
Mr. Zheng, don't worry.
The diagnosis report will include photos.
We will provide you a copy.
What the hell is this?
Don't pretend politeness
and speak so impolitely.
My husband just wants to see his leg.
What's that to do with photos?
Excuse me.
Dr. Gao.
Mrs. Zheng.
Can I have a word?
Mr. Zheng's condition was untreated for too long.
If we don't amputate, there's a risk of death.
Amputate?
Is there no other way?
Mrs. Zheng.
This is something I've had to tell many patients' families.
Keep the leg and lose your life
or keep your life
and lose the leg.
What did the doctor say?
Bone cancer?
Of course not.
It's nothing to do with bone cancer.
I got a call from the insurance company yesterday.
They said Zi-han had 20 million in cancer insurance
and the premiums expired just this month.
They couldn't find him so they called me.
I was dazed and confused.
You were Zi-han's best friend.
Had you ever heard about any insurance?
Did the insurance company say anything?
They gave some condolences
and then slithered away
so they didn't pay
a single penny.
Zi-han's insurance was for cancer.
He died of a blood clot from septicemia.
Nothing to do with cancer.
So of course the insurance company wouldn't pay up.
Do you know anything about this?
Last month.
Zi-han's leg was uncomfortable, he saw a doctor.
The doctor said it could be bone cancer.
He came up with a plan.
He told me to get a health exam
and used my health report to buy insurance.
I told him it'd bite him in the ass.
He said cancer cells wouldn't spread much in 3 or 5 months.
I didn't imagine it'd turn out this way.
You two look so different.
How could that work?
I thought so too
but it turns out
it wasn't so difficult.
How could Zi-han be so dumb?
The doctor said
if he'd just started the medicine early, it would've been fine.
He believed he put a terrible burden on you.
He wanted to make it up to you with a few million.
This was a photo of you.
I always told him to take it home.
He always said "Next time, next time".
When's the funeral?
I don't know yet.
Why not?
His leg's still missing.
Director Pan.
Does your department
not make much money?
This department looks
different from the others.
Yes.
Our department has no surgeries
no tests
no patient visits.
We don't make money.
That's why we're in this tiny corner.
Then you should have free time.
Miss Qian.
If you keep making trouble
we'll all have a lot of free time soon.
Director Pan.
I just want to ask about the GPS.
Can't you tell me anything?
I don't know what Qian Wang was smoking
when he told you our garbage trucks use GPS.
Qian Wang told me that after the truck left
my husband's leg would be incinerated in 84 hours.
Minus the last two days
all I have left is today.
Director Pan.
Trust me.
If you don't tell me
I will stay here with you.
I will follow you home.
When you go to sleep
I will be there.
And I will tell your wife
you're a man who doesn't take responsibility.
You're really sick.
Should I take you to the emergency room?
After the emergency room, I'll come back to find you.
Everyone in the hospital knows about your case.
Everyone knows you won't stop.
Sign a consent form, and you regret it.
Give you a new leg, and you don't want it.
Helping a fickle person like you
never ends well.
Director Pan.
Don't be so serious.
Let me tell you one of my husband's favorite jokes.
There's an old couple, married 50 years.
One morning.
They're sitting at the table eating breakfast.
The husband tells the wife
"50 years ago, we used to take our clothes off
and eat breakfast naked."
The wife says.
"So you think
we should take our clothes off now?"
So.
The two of them
took their clothes off and ate breakfast.
Then the wife says.
"Darling.
Guess what?
My nipples
are burning hot for you, just like 50 years ago."
The husband says.
"That's no surprise.
Because one of the nipples
is drooping into your coffee."
Miss Qian.
If you don't leave.
I'm calling security.
What the hell's this?
What hell are you?
Don't snoop through my stuff.
The hell am I? The hell are you!
What's the problem?
We're fine, you're the problem.
Director Pan.
Just tell me where the truck is.
Is it so hard
to help a widow?
You're the most unwanted person
in the whole hospital.
If you're fine, then get out.
Enough?
If you don't go, I'll really call security
I'll fucking sue you.
You won't tell me?
I'll sue you, Director Pan.
Hey, John.
Come pick me up
and pick up some stuff for me too
I'll text you what you need to buy.
You don't have a car?
Can you borrow one?
I have no car either.
My granny can't talk, she's terminally ill
I'll call you later.
Climb a thousand peaks.
Godspeed
I'll call you later.
Since we've met again
can you do me a favor?
Do you have a car?
Yeah.
Can you take me down south?
That's not cool.
I thought your husband just died
and you know
I have a girlfriend.
I'll explain in the car.
It's already past 4:30.
Hold on.
This guy's really daring
driving that kind of car to this kind of place.
You think the woman's in love?
Not with this kind of place.
Why couldn't there be love?
The chances are low.
But I think the woman loves him a lot.
He must've forgotten to pay.
What the hell are you doing?
Can you drive like that?
What the hell?
Mr. Huang.
My name is Qian.
These two are my colleagues
John
and William.
We're radiation specialists from the EPA.
On July 5th.
An irradiated patient was amputated.
The amputated limb was improperly disposed of.
When we got the news, we tracked down your truck.
Isn't that lucky?
I'm going to burn it.
If it gets burned
the radiation will blast everywhere.
Your factory will be toast.
That's so fucked up.
Damn.
Wait, wait.
You aren't anybody.
EPA my ass.
What kind of car is that?
What kind of clothes are those?
You know you're holding a mosquito swatter?
Mr. Huang.
This isn't a mosquito swatter.
This is the newest model
radiation detector.
At 2:00 PM
you were on the National Highway.
On the Nantou Interchange at 4:30
past the culvert.
Besides the EPA
who could track your GPS?
Fuck, you think I'm dumb?
You followed me here
and wrote down the GPS.
You think I don't know?
Okay.
You're so smart.
You know we followed you.
You know how many traffic violations you had?
Speeding.
Illegal lane changes.
Littering cigarettes.
And...
How long did you park at that diner?
Is this waste truck
allowed to park by diners?
Were you playing with your lover?
What do you want?
Brother.
My colleague here may look like Lun-Mei Gwei.
But she only appears naive.
Everything she said is true.
We are EPA radiation technicians.
We by accident
lost an irradiated specimen.
If we don't get it back
we could end up
losing our jobs.
However.
If an accident does happen
the radiation could hit thousands of people.
Fuck, you're confusing me
I don't know whether to believe you
Mr. Huang.
It's fine.
You have two options now.
Option one.
You can call the police.
The police will retrieve the irradiated specimen.
My colleague and I
will be written up
and punished.
You will be written up for your
traffic and parking violations.
Option two?
Option two.
You let us retrieve the irradiated specimen
I'll return it to the EPA.
Our records will remain clean
and your lover at the diner
won't be discovered.
Help us to help you.
This is called a win-win.
How about it?
No.
It's win-win-win-win.
Since there's 4 people
it's win-win-win-win.
Hold on though.
I'm not going up there.
No need
we'll search by ourselves.
Be careful of radiation.
That day when you asked me whether to intubate.
My only thought was not to burden you.
I was lost for words
I couldn't tell you much.
Even if I managed to recover.
I'd end up weighing you down.
My life
started out as an uncertain journey.
It was you.
Now I should call you.
Miss Qian.
After I met you.
I gained a direction.
His body is intact now.
He has let go of worldly things
Buddha will lead him to the other shore.
Please pay your respects.
Could I have a moment alone?
I recall how I loved you at first sight.
How I lost my way.
I remember my regrets
and your tears.
I still remember the first time you took me dancing.
It felt like
you had taken me flying.
I remember
my palms were sweating
like a girl afraid of heights
on a plane for the first time.
Later
when I saw you getting abused at the seaside.
When I looked down at your face covered in bruises.
I realized.
I love you.
Not because you promised me anything.
I love you
because you're the person I love.
The time is here.
My journey
is finished.
I can only wish you safe happiness on your journey ahead
to reach those distances I couldn't see.
Zi-han.
Finding your leg
was the last thing I could do for you.
To give you back your wings.
I hope when you reach the other world
you can fly free
and find
what you lost long ago.
Now
I will wait in silence
hoping to meet Miss Qian again one day.
At that time, I'll ask you for a dance.
Because long, long ago
someone once said.
If love is enduring
it will outlast a brief separation.
If it's possible.
I hope in dreams.
I can relive the feeling of
the first time you took me flying