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It was also screened at the Vancouver International Film Festival, the Pusan International Film Festival, the London Film Festival, the Festival of Three Continents, the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, the Deauville Asian Film Festival, and the Hong Kong International Film Festival. It made its North American premiere on 11 September at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival.

The film had its world premiere on 4 September 2006 at the 64th Venice International Film Festival. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone was among several films commissioned by Peter Sellars' New Crowned Hope Festival in Vienna in 2006, to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Lee Kang-sheng as Paralyzed Guy and Homeless Guy.

Homeless Guy embraces them both as the mattress floats across the surface of the water. The film ends with a 'dream' shot where the three lovers, the family maid, Homeless Guy and Rawang, share the same mattress and they descend down the screen. Rawang is ultimately unsuccessful with his vengeance, to which Homeless Guy responds by wiping away Rawang's tears. At this point, it ceases to be a distanced observer and instead, focuses on Rawang's and Homeless Guy's faces, displaying anger and guilt. The camera itself breaks away from habit. He threatens Homeless Guy with a sharp tin can lid on his throat. However, when Homeless Guy decides to move in with the family maid, taking along the mattress that he shares with Rawang, Rawang spirals into a jealous rage.

Rawang is seemingly oblivious to his relationship, or even if he is aware, has chosen not to interfere with Homeless Guy's romantic attractions. Upon Homeless Guy's recovery, he begins sneaking out at night where he has sexual encounters with an older woman and the family maid, for whom he is developing feelings. At the same time, strangers began entering the house and it is slowly revealed that the house is being put on sale. Like Rawang, the family maid is tasked to attend to Paralyzed Guy's daily needs.

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The movie switches scenes to show us Paralyzed Guy, who is immobile from the neck down and is cared for by a family maid.

Rawang himself begins to fall in love with Homeless Guy and is thwarted in his attempts to show his affections by a heavy, choking smog that has affected Kuala Lumpur. They share the newly salvaged mattress together in their makeshift home in an abandoned, flooded construction site. We follow the routine of their everyday life: Rawang cares for him, cleans him, and sleeps next to him. Rawang slowly nurses Homeless Guy back to health. Meanwhile, a homeless day laborer, or Homeless Guy (as identified in the credits also played by Lee) is severely beaten by a mob before being carried home on a mattress around the streets in Kuala Lumpur by a group of men, including Rawang (Atun), a Bangladeshi migrant worker. A brain-dead man, or Paralyzed Guy (as identified in the credits played by Lee) is abused by his mother and cared for by his family's maid (Chen). The film also stars Norman Atun and Chen Shiang-chyi. Lee Kang-sheng stars in a dual role as a brain-dead patient and as an injured homeless man. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone is a 2006 Malaysian-Taiwanese romantic drama film written and directed by Tsai Ming-liang.