Chingliu stitched the interviews, the found clips, and the city’s surveillance halves into a short film—part documentary, part sequence of impressions. At the premiere in a small black-box theater, the audience watched a sequence that moved without explanation: a bell, a chair on a balcony, a hand releasing a paper boat, a woman’s reflection split across three panes of glass. People leaned forward. At the end, applause rose like a tide. Mei cried.