Completed - MANDARIN, TAIWANESE, ENGLISH, FRENCH - Family, Drama, Comedy - 104 minutes
An online romance with a foreigner takes a lonely middle-aged chicken farmer to an unknown land. Despite everyone saying it is a romance scam, she wants to prove that her love indeed exists.
Year of production : 2023 Director(s) : Chien Hung LIEN Writer(s) : Chien-hung LIEN, Essay LIU Cast : Esther LIU, Austin LIN, Ying Hung LEE, Li Yin YANG, Yung Hsu TANG Producer(s) : Amanda MANYIN REINERT (ENLA MEDIA), Uilin ONGSIS (THE GRADUATE CO., LTD.), Dennis WU (Bole Film Co., Ltd.), Lieh LEE (An Attitude Production Co., Ltd.)
The online romance of Hui-Jun with a foreigner ignites gossip in the peaceful rural town where she lives. Hui-Jun is a 38-year-old Taiwanese chicken farmer, living with her brother and teenage niece Xin-Ru. She has been single for a long time and is not very good at interacting with other people. One day, Xin-Ru downloads an online dating app on Hui-Jun’s mobile phone. Unexpectedly, Hui-Jun, who doesn’t speak English, develops a romantic relationship through the app with a French man “Martin”. In the online world, she is “Salli”. The villagers laugh at Hui-Jun and tell her that it is a romance scam, but Hui-Jun refuses to believe them. She believes it is true love. But all of a sudden, Martin disappears. To prove Martin’s existence, Hui-Jun, who has never been abroad, decides to leave for Paris to find him..
Country(ies) : TAIWAN, FRANCE
Busan International Film Festival 2023