Ten year-old Xiang faces his father’s death alone. Barely able to live, he met an old school janitor who takes him to collect used objects. Just when Xiang feels secure, his estranged mother appears, taking him to a new home to live with his cold and sinister stepfather. But his elder brother who had left with his mother years ago disappeared. Outside the school, Xiang encounters a portly young man who shows him the world in a unique way. These new friends compose the outline of his life and become the subjects of his drawings. Can Xiang depict his own image in the fourth portrait?

There are more than a hundred children missing every year in Taiwan, a quarter of whom have never been found. Those children are usually defined as “missing,” but what does the word “missing” refer to? Are they still alive? How would they disappear? But this film does not only deal with the issue of missing children. It depicts how the protagonist Xiang faces the absence of many people and things in his life. The four portraits represent Xiang’s relationship with others and his indescribable predicament along the process of growing up. The important thing is that how Xiang becomes independent and strong and looks at himself at the end.

2010 낭트3대륙영화제 관객상
2010 발라로이드국제영화제 촬영상
2010 로카르노국제영화제
2010 토론토국제영화제
2010 금마장영화제 감독상, 작품상, 여우조연상, 국제영화비평가연맹상
2010 아태영화제 촬영상
2010 밴쿠버국제영화제
2010 도쿄국제영화제
2010 부산국제영화제
2010 오사카아시아영화제