Players, for the most part, control the troubled screenwriter Du Feng-yu () through a Taipei apartment with rooms that represent various years in the lives of the Du family during the 1980s. The family consists of Feng-yu, his wife Gong Li-fang (), a retired singer, and their daughter Du Mei-shin (), an aspiring child singer. Feng-yu's screenwriting career has stagnated while Mei-shin begins to show signs of a mysterious illness. As the family's financial situation deteriorates, Li-fang has frequent arguments with Feng-yu about whether she should come out of her retirement to help support the family.
