Delphine Rousseau, a Swiss theatrical director, adapted the famous novel Year of the Drought's Hot Summer on the Horizon, which describes the life changes of a 13-year-old farm boy in the face of family collapse and youth growth during the summer of 1976 when Europe was hit by a heat wave. Delphine Roxie tells a story of farewell to childhood and female consciousness with exquisite human depiction. The seemingly beautiful rural scenery actually contains gender wrestling and the undertide of death. The famous European model Leticia Casta, who once performed Tsai Ming-Liang's "face", also showed a restrained performance in the film.