Dong, a wannabe actor, finally getting the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fame and success, wakes up with a dead woman, Meng, beside him. Unable to piece the night before together, Dong is determined not to let it stand in his way. He cleans up the scene and sets it up like a robbery went wrong but leaves traces of himself to be found unknowingly.While the police search the apartment, it turns out all residents have something to hide. A foreign caretaker always quarrels with Meng, a peeping Tom at the massage shop. This landlord seems kind and polite but, in fact, abuses his wife, an inharmonious family that pretends to be happy, and an owner of a publishing house in debt. To unravel the cause of Meng’s death, the long-kept darkest secrets, and everyone seems to have a motive for this murder.
Unaware of his death, Mr. Wu arrives at "Hell Airport" but can't be reincarnated as his daughter hasn't cried for him. To help him, hell messengers visit a film set and try to make his stubborn daughter cry, or he'll be trapped in hell forever.
Aissa, a young officer of Algerian origin, tragically loses his life during a fresher initiation ritual at the prestigious French military academy of Saint-Cyr. As the death tears through his family, controversy arises over Aissa’s funeral plans when the Army refuses to take responsibility. Ismael, his older, rebellious brother, tries to keep the family united as they fight to win justice for Aissa.
A has-been newscaster Liu Li-min is taken hostage by an escaped inmate Zhang Zheng-yi, who pleads his innocence. To Liu's astonishment, Zhang claims that he was smeared by Liu's departed wife. Thus, Liu teams up with Zhang and reinvestigates Zhang's murder case to help his beloved be cleared of blame. However, the more they get to the bottom of the case, the further the truth is beyond their reach.
When her mother gets sick, 13-year-old Fen moves back to Taiwan, where she struggles to fit in amid the 2003 SARS epidemic.