"Your love for vintage things is a way of respecting time." I think that's one of the functions of photographs: they allow you and your past to look into each other's eyes. "I'm not trying to hunt down whoever stole it or anything like that. I'm just thinking if I get lucky and can track down everyone who's owned it at some point, I might be able to find out where the bike has been for the past 20 years. I don't know if that would mean anything to me, or if I'd ever find any answers, but it's just what I want to do." An epic journey that chronicles the history of 20th-century Taiwanese society through the trail of a stolen bicycle. A writer decides to search for his father, who mysteriously disappeared 20 years earlier, by looking for his bicycle, which vanished with him. He finds himself immersed in the strange and profound relationship between Taiwanese society and bicycles, the secretive world of vintage collectors, and the role bicycles played in Southeast Asia during World War II. At the same time, the writer returns to his personal past and the history of his family, which faced many strange destinies, in which bicycles were always a key element.