Stray Dogs
A melancholic, slow-paced portrait of urban poverty and fractured family bonds, where small moments of human connection offer fragile hope against systemic bleakness.
An alcoholic man and his two young children barely survive in Taipei. They cross paths with a lonely grocery clerk who might help them make a better life.
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