A Young Couple Leave Their Mining Town Home For Taipei Where They Struggle To Eke Out A Living In An Industrial Wasteland. Release: This Film Is Inspired By Screenwriter Wu Nien-Jen's Childhood Memories. It Is The Third Installment Of Director Hou Hsiao-Hsien's "Coming-of-Age Trilogy" That Features Three Prominent Taiwanese Screenwriters' Coming-of-age Stories. The Other Two Are A Summer At Grandpa's (1984) (inspired By The Coming-of-age Story Of Chu Tien-wen) And A Time To Live And A Time To Die (1985) (inspired By The Coming-of-age Story Of Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Who Is A Screenwriter-turned-director).