Overview: Xiaoyan and her husband have been married for many years. To make a living, she has been running a food stall from home. Is love the only reason why the couple managed to get along for so long, or is it something else?
Overview: Mr. Lai, an extra in a film, wakes up coughing on the set and gets notified he is going to play a dead body lying in a coffin. Teased by other background actors and mistreated by the film crew, he finds a perfect way to lie in the coffin.
Overview: In the 1990s, many young women from Southeast Asia, carrying their hopes and dreams, were married off to this faraway island of riches...
Through a two-part narrative, the film contrasts the past and the present of Taiwanese society. Can these immigrant women across different eras break free from their predicaments in this foreign land to rediscover themselves? Can they as well as the locals, live truly free lives?