Writer/director Fu Tien-yu’s confident debut film features a strong cast of characters and an unusual sensitivity in its story of a scrappy, color-blind 15-year-old girl named Ah-guei and her beloved, equally restless and lonely male cousin Ah-xian, with whom she engages in imaginative travels far beyond the bounds of their small seaside town. Burdened by her feelings of being different, Ah-guei dreams of leaving for a Pacific island, where she believes everyone would see the world as she does. The film’s lovely pastel palette and natural humor are balanced by a softly melancholic undertone, as Ah-guei’s cousin, who harbors a secret gay identity, unexpectedly leaves Ah-guei behind. Coming of age will mean coming to terms with life’s rainbow, colors she cannot always see or define but which ultimately offer a sense of place and self-identity.

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Written by Fu Tien-yu. Photographed by Chou Yi-wen. With Mei Fang, Lin Po-hung, Yu Shin, Lee Yun-yun, Chou Yung-hsuan. (96 min, Wu’s Production Co.)