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Royston Tan's second feature is set in Singapore. Xiao Wu, eleven years old, is left alone at home after school because his mother is permanently away on business. There is a lodger in the flat as well, a Korean man in his thirties who is in a bad way. Every night at half past four the boy slips into his room, goes through his things and takes small objects. They share no language, and this was never a relationship built through talking anyway. The film sets two people side by side who want contact and cannot manage it; what it is about is loneliness, not romance. It runs almost silently, on very few lines of dialogue.