Bus passengers are killed in a bizarre explosion. Among the casualties is a suspect in a serial kidnapping and murder case involving children. The passengers included a middle-aged businessman, a female college student, a school dropout, a father estranged from his daughter, and the bus driver. The police try to use some new technology involving injecting the brain fluids of the suspects into a death-row convict. As the five identities keep appearing in one body, the situation becomes unstable and unpredictable. Shiao’s Plurality consists of Sci-fi ideas, such as involving villains in a rescue, much like the unconscious world in Tarsem Singh’s The Cell (2000), and the sharing of plural identities in M. Night Shyamalan’s Split (2016). Though Asian cinema isn’t that strong in the Sci-fi genre, the director attempts to expand the genre by combining action, thriller, and family drama. (CHO Jaewhee)