In a Chinese village during the Qing Dynasty, a crippled man acts as a lawyer for the poor with the help of the trickster Monkey King, but his peaceful life is turned upside down when he comes into possession of a book that details atrocities committed by the government.

In Long Beach, California, a religious Chinese immigrant finds a job caring for a teenage boy suffering from leukemia. By watching M*A*S*H and reading the Bible, they find solace in one another during the last months of his life.

A poor but noble-blooded Chinese man seeks glory by inadvertently joining the English war effort in WWI. He works as a trench-digger, but his ambition leads him to take up arms during a battle, inspiring his fellow trench-diggers to fight with him.

A Japanese businessman reflects on his experience with Chinese people and longs to visit China.

A girl challenges the spider which has, for better or for worse, remained inseparable from her family and her ancestors for generations.

Years after facing abuse from the hermit overseeing a nature preserve, two children—now adults—enact their revenge.

At the root of her complicated family formed by her father and stepmother, a girl faces years of abuse through what they consider to be a “royal beating.”

A daughter, on the verge of becoming a mother, learns a great deal in spending time with her own mother.

From across the universe, two sisters try to keep each other in contact.