The story opens with a monologue from a young film-maker looking back on his first, lost love. Having just completed his first film, he is supposed to be preparing a draft of his next script. But feeling restless and a little lost, he is instead on a boat, heading for a motel on a remote island, where 10 years earlier, he once vacationed with his first girlfriend. Back then, they swore to meet there again in ten years time and he is keeping that date, although he strongly doubts that she would show. As the days pass and the time for them to meet again comes closer, he becomes the portrait of a man, waiting for a past, which may or may not return to him.

A couple of friends go on a trip to a solitary place where they can spend their time swimming in a lake, eating and laughing all the time. While everybody is enjoying the party a woman has a hunch that something or someone is watching her every move. Using a ouija board she makes a contact with a ghost of a murdered woman...

A passionate and happy couple mysteriously falls into depression and one after another commits suicide.

The Third World War happened and ended with the collapse of the world’s economic system. Humans live without any rules. Rich people are gods. Poor people become slaves and toys of upper class people. Three girls, Run, Fear and Irene join the game as toys of the rich for different reasons, and the loser must die.

Chul, Seop, and Deok-kyu are desperate for just one performance. They desire for a chance to play their songs, but being on the stage is even difficult. It is hard for Chul and Seop to meet Im-jae, the leader of the free-spirited band.

The plot revolves around the life of a dancer girl. She meets and falls in love with a youngster. Their life revolves around dance. Things take a new turn as unexpected events happen in their life.

Following the previous projects since (2003), (2008) is the fourth omnibus project describing the theme of human rights. The fourth project is comprised of five short films made by five directors.

The five shorts included in are as follows: “Blue Birds on the Desk” deals with stress from extreme overload of schoolwork, “U and Me” shows fear about uncertain future of teenagers, “Relay” is about concerns of teenage single mothers, “The Theory & Practice of Teenage Drama” is a portrait of today’s youth living in times of serious unemployment, “Girl on the Run” is a story about insecure futures of those students pursuing a career in sports.

The movie is set in Shanghai in the early Republican era. Cheng Daqi, a young man working at a fruit stall, travels to Shanghai in search of a new life and he meets Hong Shouting, a police chief who is also a triad boss. Hong's wife, Ling Husheng, recognises Cheng's talent and successfully persuades her husband to let Cheng join them. Cheng gradually rises through the ranks in the criminal underworld of Shanghai and becomes an influential triad boss. He meets Bao, who falls in love with him, but Cheng's true love is actually his childhood friend Ye Zhiqiu, who has gone missing.

Many years later, a middle-aged Cheng has become one of the most notorious and powerful triad bosses in Shanghai, even surpassing his old boss Hong Shouting. However, he finds himself caught up in the struggle between the aggressive Empire of Japan, which is planning to invade China, and the local secret service led by the crafty Mao Zai, who saved his life many years ago. He also encounters his old flame Ye Zhiqiu again, but she is now married to another man.