When her foster father passes away, Lin Xiao Mei is surprised to learn that he left his magic theatre in her keep. Still deeply sorrowful of her father's passing, she did not expect her heart to broken again; this time by her childhood lover as well as fiance, Jin Xiu, who decided to leave her in pursuit of fame and fortune. Mending her heart came from the most unexpected source - Wu Jun An, a young man from the country who wanted to be a judicial officer... but instead found magic to be his calling. All things appeared to be going well for the two, until Jin Xiu decided to re-enter Xiao Mei's life again and a love triangle forms...
Crushed by a messy unrequited love, a young queer poet, through the confidence of their best friend and the truth of their art, finally reckons with their own emotional baggage (or, 'boulder'). The film oscillates between 16mm narrative compositions of everyday life and Super 8 montages which imagine the world of their poetry.
West Point cadet Edgar Allan Poe and four other cadets on a training exercise in upstate New York are drawn by a gruesome discovery into a forgotten community.