It tells a variety of stories about love that has gone wrong: a brother and sister in an illicit relationship, a married painter who falls in love with his young male life model, a dance school teacher who is besotted with his senior student, and a lesbian couple, one of whom has role-play paranoia, and is caught in a complex love triangle.
The film is set in a pre-Covid Taipei, where a group of disenchanted souls are lost in a parallel virtual world.
Look at Me is a romantic melodrama, taking place in the near future where everyone relies on VR technology. Zhang suffers VR addiction and so do the people around him. He is depressed because his girlfriend doesn' t look at him anymore during their dates and, as a result, their sex life turns cold. Zhang is frustrated until he discovers a world where people crave for "real interaction."
