Railway Sonata: the Four Seasons (鐵道奏鳴曲)

Introduction

First movement: postcard from the spring light
On a warm spring day, a postcard for a B&B advertisement with beautiful handwriting prompts Achieh to reply on an impulse. In order to remedy an act of stupidity, he sets off to the B&B to intercept. There, the smile of the B&B owner, Jhii An, becomes imprinted in Achieh's heart...

Second movement: wedding dress carried by the summer wind
　Inside a carriage on the Neiwan line, a young woman dressed in white bridal gown runs dashing through. Just as her heel breaks off, she collides with a tall man in a handsome uniform. This is how Liao Chun-sheng and Li Chiiu-fen meet, on a summer day with the scent of ginger lily in the air.

Third movement: waltz played by the autumn rain
　In the autumn rain, a man in his seventies known as Uncle Ching Ming is seen in his station crew uniform. He attentively directs traffic on the platform at a station that has long been transformed into an unmanned station. It is as though he has boarded a train travelling back to the past, where he remains standing, for eternity…

Fourth movement: winter traveler's storybook
　“Teacher Snail”, who cannot let go of his dream of literary writing, is unable to stop his wife who is determined to take the child and leave. The only thing he can do is to secretly see his daughter off from afar at the airport. He then begins his journey to the next stop on a winter day, in search of a place where he belongs.