Returning to his hometown for the Qingming Festival, a 27-year-old Chinese gay man grapples with hiding his sexuality to meet his family's marriage expectations, leading to a tense showdown during the traditional chicken slaughter ritual.
Across a white void, old documents and items come to life and speak: a cacophony of archival sounds and voices of youth growing up in an elite all-boys' private Catholic high school in the Philippines bursts through as the country undergoes great change and political turmoil. Navigating these systems of influence, power, and control, both the documents and repressed voices seek their own means of liberation, as lines break out of formation and colored ink spills out of the pages.