This story is all about two people who live in buildings
right next to each other, separated only by a wall, and are always near each
other but can't seem to find one another. characters were only referred to as
"him" and "her" John Liu (Takeshi Kaneshiro) is a violinist
who works from job to job. Eve Choi (Gigi Leung) is a translator for a book
publishing company. Her job is to translate foreign books into Chinese. She is
given the daunting task of translating a horror novel into Chinese.
Some of the parts of this story is so unforgettable like when
he helps her pick up her papers that have fallen into the fountain. They find
out that they had met each other when they were younger at an amusement park,
when both their schools had organized a field trip to the same place Then, Eve
had asked John for his telephone number, but the two never got in touch because
she left her school bag on the train and lost John's phone number. The two
laugh about the past and exchange phone numbers without asking for each other's
name before parting quickly because of a coming rainstorm. And at the end john
and Eve are frustrated about not being able to find each other and decide to
take jobs abroad. On the day they are to leave Taiwan, an earthquake strikes,
destroying the wall that separates their apartment. Both finally find each
other.



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