Hsiao Zheng-Wei

The Uncaught Third Strike

Li Chih-cheng, a C-list Taiwanese actor, is hand-picked by a renowned Chinese director to star in a project during the pandemic. On his last day of self-isolation in Shanghai, he discovers he has a fever. Worse still, he must make a decision between his wife in Taiwan and mistress in China over video call. But as it turns out, everyone has a hidden identity and secret. In order to make it through, Chih-cheng must deliver the performance of a lifetime.

In the 1960s, two classmates go looking for their missing friends and teachers, all of whom took part in an illegal book club, only to come face to face with ghosts and deformed monsters that have taken over their school.