The film follows a day in the lives of several households living within the same HDB block.
A soup vendor called Ah Gu is having a hard time dealing with his Mainland Chinese wife, Lily. San San, an overweight loner, is haunted by her feelings of isolation and the memory of her deceased mother. Meng, Trixie and Tee are siblings left to their own devices when their parents go on holiday.
Derek Elley of Variety wrote that the film's has "genuinely funny" moments, but its slow pacing "blunts the humor".[3]Time Out called it "witty and sophisticated stuff".[4]
Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that it "is widely regarded to have contributed to the revitalisation of local cinema".[5]
