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Buttressed between two milestone events within their personal sphere, the lives of the Jians - husband and wife N.J. and Min-Min, teenage daughter Ting-Ting, and eight year old son Yang-Yang - and to a lesser extent that of their broader grouping of extended family and friends, are presented. The Jians live in an upscale apartment complex in Taipei along with Min-Mins mother, who has fallen into a coma, each family member who takes turns by her bedside to relay lifes goings-on to her regardless of if she can hear them. While Min-Min has troubles with this on-going task, the other three use her as an unofficial sounding board for their issues, primarily in the realm of finding their place in current life and their role in her predicament. Yang-Yang still has a childs simple perspective of the world, such as the reason he has a penchant for taking photographs of the back of peoples heads, that naiveté exactly the reason he is the target of bullying especially among a group of older girls, and by one of his teachers. Ting-Ting is acting as the unofficial intermediary in the complicated relationship between her best friend and next door neighbor Lili, and her boyfriend Fatty. It is made all the more difficult as Ting-Ting has feelings for Fatty herself. And N.J., a computer electronics engineer, is seen as the honest one among him and his partners, which is why he is chosen to deal with Japanese Mr. Ota in assessing if it worth the expensive but potentially lucrative risk of going into business with him. Concurrently, N.J., who uses Mr. Ota as a confidante of sorts in their emerging friendship, reunites and becomes reacquainted with childhood friend Sherry, married and now living in Chicago, she who could have been the one in his life if he ended up keeping their appointment thirty years ago. Min-Mins younger brother A-Di may face that same conundrum thirty years down the road as he just married Xiao-Yan partly for a very specific reason, while his old girlfriend Yunyun fumes on the sidelines.
Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about lifes meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank, his business partners make bad decisions against his advice, and he reconnects with his first love 30 years after he dumped her. His teenage daughter Ting-Ting watches emotions roil in their neighbors flat and is experiencing the first stirrings of love. His 8-year-old son Yang-Yang is laconic like his dad and pursues truth with the help of a camera. "Why is the world so different from what we think it is?" asks Ting-Ting.
Nien-Jen Wu
N.J.
Elaine Jin
Min-Min
Issei Ogata
Mr. Ota
Kelly Lee
Ting-Ting
Jonathan Chang
Yang-Yang
Hsi-Sheng Chen
A-Di
Su-Yun Ko
Sherry Chang-Breitner
Chuan-cheng Tao
Dada
Shu-shen Hsiao
Xiao-Yan
Meng-chin 'Adriene' Lin
Lili
Pang Chang Yu
Pangzi
Ru-Yun Tang
Grandma
Shu-Yuan Hsu
Mrs. Jiang
Hsin-Yi Tseng
Yunyun
Yung-Feng Lee
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Shi-hui Chin
Nancy
Jie Wu
Wu Jie
Kuo-Chih Shu
Shu Ge
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