Outcasts
Ah Ching, a young student, gets cast off by his parents because he is gay. In a public park in Taipei, he finds a group of other young gays and joins them to live in the house of a middle-aged photographer. They form…
In 1980s Taipei, a young student named Ah Ching is brutally cast out by his family after they discover he is gay. Alone and desperate, he stumbles into a hidden world beneath the city's public park: a makeshift family of other young gay men who have been rejected by society. There, he finds shelter and tentative camaraderie under the roof of a middle-aged photographer, a man who offers them protection in exchange for an unspoken understanding. As Ah Ching navigates this fragile sanctuary, he grapples with love, betrayal, and the yearning for a place to call home. Adapted from a novel, 'Outcasts' is a raw, pioneering work of Taiwanese New Wave Cinema that refuses to flinch from the pain of ostracism while celebrating the fierce resilience of queer kinship. It's a quiet, devastating drama that asks what freedom really costs when the world refuses to see you.