The River 1997 In Taiwan, Xiao kang, a young man in his early 20s, lives with his parents in near silence He is plagued by severe neck pain His father is bedeviled by water first leaking into his bedroom and then flooding the apartment rain is incessant Xiao kangs mother is overcome by sexual longing for her son, sometimes making seemingly incestuous overtures They try virtually every intervention for Xiao kangs neck Western medicine, a chiropractor, acupuncture, an herbal doctor, and a faith healer, Master Liu Are the familys silent dynamics and Xiao kangs neck pain connected And what about the body floating in the Tamsui River is everything dead