Humming Wood (2022)

On a sultry summer night, the 20-year-old Son, who is tall and vigorous, enjoys his first one-night stand with an older Lady. However, his feeling of ecstasy is disrupted by a constant cell phone ringtone from the Father. Waiting on the porch with thoughts, the Father smokes a cigarette, staring at the Son when he opens the front door and walks straight in. Profound silence fills the house. The Son puts on his headphones and quietly enters his bedroom, while the heavy-hearted Father goes back to the living room, drinks a few beer cans, and sings karaoke all alone in the dead of night. The karaoke music accordingly echoes to the upper room, where the Son, now wearing a white brief, looks at himself in the mirror and touches his body with curiosity. Then, he does push-ups continuously until his heavy breaths and the distant clicking sounds of cicadas intermingle and become louder. All sweaty, the Son lies down on the ground and idly puts his hand down the brief. There he begins masturbating, in a gradually faster way, and comes to a climax. In that exquisite ecstasy, the Son drifts off to sleep. In the dream, the Son is bewildered to stand in the middle of an old-growth forest, so dense that his small body would be enclosed. Before his eyes, deep inside the ancient trees looms the silhouette of a Man-stark naked. The Man just stands there like he is waiting for someone. The Son wakes up, but that dream still lingers. It mysteriously exists in real life and makes him ponder.