Add Chang Tso-chi to the list of exceptional new filmmakers from Taiwan. A former assistant director to Hou Hsiao-hsien, Chang takes us inside a most unusual household. Feisty Kang-yi, home from college, helps out with the family massage business run by her blind father and falls for a neighborhood gangster-to-be. But Chang has more on his mind than teen romance and gangster histrionics. Working with nonprofessional actors, his portrait of this enchanting, self-sufficient household is wonderfully tender and unaffected. The film's seductive pace is realized with a camera dreamily prowling their apartment amid the family bustle, punctuated by dissolves that elegantly mirror the conflict between Kang-yi's romantic longings and the reality of her family's hardscrabble life.