Muzi, 22, comes home to Hangzhou for Chinese New Year, where she plays her roles as a daughter, a half-sister, and a girlfriend. Roaming in this city that feels so familiar yet distant, Muzi searches for a place where she belongs.

She plays an actress. He works as a filmmaker. We are making a film in Xining, Qinghai, China. She says that this is the furthest place that she's ever been from home. As days go by and under the pressure from the production, we start to wander on the border of life and fiction.

As a couple with an age difference, Tong and Fang try to navigate their uncertain love relationship on a surfing trip, during which they face an unforeseen loss in life.

The hotel room as a place where everyone is a stranger. A place that is yours for just a moment. A temporarily intimate space entered by a maid in order to clean it while, if possible, not leaving a trace of her visit. Each episode of Stranger is set in such a place, and each is captured in one long take. Weaving together a series of episodic stories – some humorous and absurd, some poignant and mysterious – that all unfold within a seemingly confined space, Stranger explores the idea of home while being away from it, and sheds light on the distinctive yet universal experiences of isolation and loneliness.

Shao Wenhan, a small-town girl, carries her mother's lifelong hope: to escape the small town and start a new life in the big city by learning to play the pipa. But Wenhan, with the pipa in her arms, doesn't believe in her mother's dream. Amidst the struggles of both mother and daughter, she secretly strives to find a new path for herself...