The main hero makes his living Hsiao-Kang sells watches in the streets of Taipei. His father dies, and his mother if in despair and becomes convinced that her husband’s spririt has been channeled into a big white fish Farry living in their tank.

May, a chic young real estate agent, misplaces the keys to a vacant, beautiful apartment in a new high-rise. Hsiao-kang a shy young man, finds the keys and decides to live there in secret.

The film depicts a powerful dramatic portrait of a not-so-ordinary dysfunctional urban family. In Taiwan, Xiao-kang, a young man in his early 20s, shares apartment with his parents, but the three of them rarely speak to each other.

Ah Jie lost his job and money in the stock market due to a severe economic crisis. He spends his days in his apartment, staring at the stock market report, smoking joints and looking after the marijuana plants that he secretly grows in his wardrobe.