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父亲一去不返，原本在城市上班的阿亮，回到被遗忘的沙洲，寄居河边破房子，在垃圾场打工。岛民为土地公抬轿，被丢弃的神明都挤在寺庙中。阿亮发现神秘红裙女子漂浮于河上，她似乎有着不堪回首的过去，或许她根本就是河鳗化身？视觉艺术家朱骏腾首部长片，取景于台北市内遭限制开发逾半世纪的社子岛，建构如梦似幻的幽灵地带，以浓烈的符号和隐喻，展现实验风格，透过一段萍水相逢的奇遇，映照生命的困顿与无常，探索欲望与归属。柏林影展视角单元。

　　一群十几岁的少年庆祝一个本地连环杀人犯的忌日，突然发现他们自己与这个困扰的城市传说的现实面对面。

 砵仔糕（周润发 饰）、阿占（张国荣 饰）和红豆（钟楚红 饰）均是孤儿，在养父（曾江 饰）栽培下成为国际大盗。长大后成了帮他赚钱的艺术品大盗，而三人同时又认了警察（朱江 饰）为干爹。法国巴黎博物馆内，名画《赫林之女仆》被人盗走。与此同时，阿海、阿占和红豆三人以敏捷身手盗得另一幅名画，在与法国大哥交易时得知名画《赫林之女仆》在妖气重重的古堡内，他们在曾江安排下成功地盗取此画之后，反被集团原凶曾江与法国大哥合谋设下陷阱，派人追杀灭口。阿海驾车与杀手快艇相撞……三人失散，数年后，他们在香港重聚，阿海“瘫痪”住在朱江家里，阿占和红豆已经结婚了。曾江又逼他们去偷画……

　　The boisterous, arrogant professor Challenger, a reputed biologist and anthropologist, dares the London Zoological Society to mount an expedition to verify his spectacular claim, without physical proof, that his previous expedition to the Amazonian basin found live dinosaurs. Apart from him and his 'socialite' counterpart, professor Summerlee, it consists of experienced discoverer Lord Roxbury, the young reporter Ed Malone -who got publicly struck down with Challenger's umbrella at his arrival- and Jennifer Holmes, Malone's news agency's boss's daughter, essentially as conditions for putting up the money. In Brazil they are joined by Jennifer's brother David and local 'guide' Manuel Gomez. They soon discover the dinosaurs are real and dangerous, like giant spiders, but loose their helicopter and thus are desperate for a way down from the isolated plateau. They learn Roxbury knew about the fate of Burton White, an explorer whose diary they find, thus presume to be dead, in search of diamonds, and confirmation of the local tribe being the lethal guardians of the plateau's secrets, but also get surprising help...