Hsiao Kang makes a living on the streets of Taipei selling wristwatches. His father died some days before, and while his mother spends time praying, Hsiao Kang falls in love with a girl who bought a watch from him just before leaving for Paris. Their brief meeting allows the boy to forget about his father’s death and becomes the key to everything that happens in the film from then on. Paris is an unknown world for the girl. She can’t come to any decisions, she loses her bearings, and on a sad walk through the big city she doesn’t find anyone who is willing to help her. In the meantime, on the other side of the globe, the boy tries to bridge the distance between Paris and Taipei by setting all the clocks in town to Paris time. In this way the fates of the two characters seem mysteriously connected.