Sall busy as a cinematographer, Yu Lik-wai has finally completed his second feature as director, a tremulous, dystopian fantasy in some ways reminiscent of the Iranian allegories made under the Shah. A future East Asia is ruled by the authoritarian Gui Dao sect, which engineers the Society it wants by confining misfits to re-education camps. The Xie brothers, Xiaozhuai(played by Diao Yinan, director of this year′s Uniform) and Xiaomian(Zhao Weiwei, from Unknown Pleasures), are sent to Camp Prosperity, where both of them eventually meet potentia llife-partners. But nothing can come of the burgeoning relationships(Xiaozhuai with the Korean Xuelan, Xiaomian with the ailing Lanlan) until the day the sect collapses. Suddenly granted freedom, the inmates find themselves wondering what to do with it... Aside from its sardonic perception that people can be rudderless without strong rule, the film excels in constructing hallucinatory images of its post-apocalypse world. But Yu has a knack of highlighting small, human details(such as a rediscovery of the pleasures of soap) which resonate with this macrocosm in surprising and haunting ways. The film carries more weight visually than it does philosophically, but those fleeting, tender moments are what make it count emotionally.