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Taiwan is hit by a terrible drought. The television broadcasters recommend that the population save water and drink watermelon juice instead. As is usual, however, people find their own answers to a problem. Shiang-Chyi secretly fills bottles with water in the public baths, and Hsiao-Kang has baths at night in the water tanks on the rooftops. They float by one another and never touch each other. Survival is difficult, but solitude is impossible to bear. Shiang-Chyi comes across a watermelon and, on the same day, meets Hsiao-Kang. She remembers she bought a watch from him when he was working as a street-vendor. The boy is now a porn actor, but this she is not yet aware of. Shiang-Chyi has never seen him since and has no idea what he might be doing there near her building. They fall in love, two clouds touching each other...