Xiao Hong is a shy 29-year-old man who works in an aquarium fish store and lets his overprotective mother boss him around in all aspects of his life. His cousin decides to take him to a seedy hotel where Sister Lele oversees the prostitution business.
How small and powerless the Doudou family is in the face of disease. The doctor explained to Doudou’s parents that Tzu Chi is the largest bone marrow stem cell center in the country and can do bone marrow matching between non-relatives. Once the pairing is successful, the chance of healing is high. Through the efforts of the Tzu Chi bone marrow care team, a miracle finally appeared. Doudou Dou finally regained his health and started a new life.
In a coastal village near Taidong during the 1960’s, a single, middle-aged mother, Bao-chai, lives a quiet life with her daughter, Xi-lian, a 20-year old schoolteacher. After conservative Bao-chai finds out that Xi Lian has fallen for her cousin, she forbids them to see each other. As time passes, Xi-lian finds love again, this time with Chu-cheng, a new teacher at her school from mainland China. When Chu-Cheng is relocated, he writes love letters to Xi-lian. Unknown to Xi-lian, the letters are intercepted and read by Bao-chai, who, in reading them, has feelings awakened in her that has been buried for most of her life. Then, one day, Chu-cheng comes to visit, and something happens that will change these three quiet lives forever…
Mei Chi, an amnesiac following a car accident, deserts her family to hook with up Ah-Liang, a taxi-driver by day and pirate CD salesman by night; Fortune-teller Ren appears on the doorstep of a lotto store owner looking for more than just a place to stay; a sexy bar owner mocks the amorous advances of an impotent musician manqué driving him to seek solace in alcohol...