Help Me, Eros is the second film from director Lee Kang-sheng, following his directorial debut in 2003, The Missing.

Plot

The film is set in modern Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The infamous opening sequence depicts the protagonist lying on the designer sofa in his apartment watching a cookery segment on his TV, in which a carp is swiftly scaled, gutted, cooked and served alive, its mouth still slowly opening and closing.