The story tells of two people who live in buildings right next to each other, separated only by a wall, and are always near each other but can’t seem to find one another.
John Liu (Takeshi Kaneshiro) is a violinist who works from job to job. During one of his gigs, he meets June, who offers to give him a ride home. However she flirts aggressively with John during the ride which frightens him. To get away from her he jumps out of her car and makes a run for his apartment building. The next day he sees her waiting for him on the left corner of his building which makes him avoid going to the left of his building.
Eve Choi (Gigi Leung) is a translator for a book publishing company. Her job is to translate foreign books into Chinese. She is given the daunting task of translating a horror novel into Chinese. At night while translating the horror novel she gets frightened and thinks her home is haunted. The next day she notices a scary-looking tree to the right of her apartment building and, frightened, she refuses to go to the right of her building.
Johnnie To, Ka-Fai Wai
Takeshi Kaneshiro, Gigi Leung, Edmund Chen, Wei-Lun Hsu
11 Aug 2003 (Hong Kong, Singapore)
1 win & 10 nominations.tt0367174