The river

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a mother, father and son live together in a small apartment in taipei but lead very separate lives. the son, xiao-kang (lee kang-sheng) drifts through life without a job: the mother is an elevator operator having an affair with a man who pirates pornographic movies; and the father pursues illicit pleasures in the city's gay saunas and is on a mission to stop the leaking water from the apartment upstairs. when the son is stricken with an agonizing pain in his neck and shoulders, seemingly from taking an ill-advised dunk in the polluted tansui river, the family is driven on a quest to alleviate the son's pain.