Guarded by a pair of angels under the skies of of a modern but romanticized Shanghai, fearless youth—theater patrons reimagined by a fornlorn movie usher with light-sensitive eyes—try their luck at love. The stories the usher conjures up take place over the course of twelve hours, each with its specific temperature: a college youth pursues a girl from a photograph on the theater’s floor; an overweight gym teacher finds sudden athleticism when his girlfriend dumps him; a young woman follows a map into the forest and finds her true love. As the couples play out different themes of urban romance—fear of commitment, love as repetition, love as obsession—the usher waits endlessly for a young woman he has encountered in a bar to meet him in the park. Moments of magic realism and sophisticated visual style combine with an uncanny narrative technique to capture the essence love in the modern city.