Focusing on a middle class family in present day Taipei, each of the family members experiences struggles and sparks of change happening their own daily lives. While unable to share their inner emotions, they could still read between the lines, and sense that there are something yet to be said. In the family, Jia-Shiang, Jia-Chi, the Father, and the Mother, all have their individual ‘homework’ to be solved.
Focusing on a middle class family in present day Taipei, each of the family members experiences struggles and sparks of change happening their own daily lives. While unable to share their inner emotions, they could still read between the lines, and sense that there are something yet to be said. In the family, Jia-Shiang, Jia-Chi, the Father, and the Mother, all have their individual ‘homework’ to be solved.
Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts.
A Taipei family faces personal and moral uncertainty as everyday events test their relationships and sense of purpose.
A moment of impulsiveness turns Gao Zhilei into a "stay-at-home" individual, but he never expected his life to take a turn in the opposite direction. A series of changes compel him to take on his responsibilities as the head of the family. When life's burdens hit hard, he must confront himself and start anew.
A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind off the family's dire state, and her selfish, nonconformist mother who has no intention of raising a family, along with her younger brother and sister, and her other older sister. Together, they fend for each other as they mature in an unorthodox journey that is their family life.
Ma Chenggang, a wealthy man in Xihong City, worries that his eldest son is too spoiled to succeed him. Determined to raise a capable successor, he takes an unconventional approach. They conceal their wealth, moving the family to a dilapidated neighborhood, and maintain an illusion of poverty, so that his son could develop qualities such as hard work, knowledge, careful budgeting, physical fitness, and perseverance.
A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
In 1976, a lower-middle-class teenager struggles to cope living with her neurotic family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.
A documentary shot by filmmakers all over the world that serves as a time capsule to show future generations what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010.
Madame Tang colludes and mediates between the government and the private businesses for the benefits of her all-female family. One case does not go according to plan, and an entire family close to Madame Tang fall victim to a gruesome murder. Ambition, desire and lust eventually change Tang's relationships with her own family forever.
In Chengdu, China, a retired female opera singer named Master Chang takes in a trio of young tenants into her boarding home. The tenants include a rock singer and a college student who has run away from home.