In the poignant drama Tigertail, Alan Yang crafts a quiet yet powerful story about the sacrifices made for a better life and the emotional distances they create. We meet Pin-Jui, portrayed with profound depth by Tzi Ma, a man in his twilight years living a comfortable but emotionally isolated existence in New York. The film gracefully weaves between his present-day loneliness and his vibrant youth in Taiwan, where a younger Pin-Jui, played by Lee Hong Chi, dreams of escape and makes a fateful choice to leave his homeland and his first love, Zhenzhen (Fiona Fu), behind. This decision, made for opportunity and family duty, casts a long shadow over his life, affecting his strained relationship with his American-born daughter Angela (Christine Ko). As past and present collide, Pin-Jui is compelled to confront the man he once was and the profound cost of the future he chose, exploring universal themes of regret, memory, and the fragile hope for reconciliation.