Mary marries James, after jilting his brother Luke. Mary's sister arrives and soon James is professing his love to her. The shock of this kills Mary and leaves her newborn daughter motherless. Luke offers to raise the daughter. Years later James returns and tries to convince his daughter to leave Luke, the only father she's ever known, and come with him.

After losing his wife to illness, an old man, feeling lost and alone, decides to go for a walk, with no idea of where his destination might be. Along the way, he encounters a feisty taxi driver and her peculiar housemate, and an unlikely relationship develops between the three of them, reinvigorating the old man’s hunger for life, love and good duck rice.