On the night of a major earthquake, train driver Li attends his elementary school class reunion to see friends he hasn’t seen in years. There, he reconnects with Song Qian, who remembers the story A Water Monster that Li wrote as a child. The two spend the night together, and Li begins to suffer from unexplained headaches. The reunion triggers the resurfacing of painful memories that Li had long suppressed - his father’s disappearance 12 years ago, leaving behind only a camera, and the death of a friend. The film seamlessly blends the present and not-the-present, as well as reality and non-reality, to explore lives engulfed by the trauma of loss. With a layered narrative structure and expressive cinematography that’s evocative of the search for healing, this film marks the emergence of a noteworthy new director. (PARK Sun Young)