Ah Dan est une étudiante. Elle forme un gang avec ses copines, qui s’appelle « Bad Girls » pour empêcher la terreur de régner, afin que les jeunes filles ne se fassent pas agresser. Un jour, une équipe de production vient à son école pour tourner un film. Malencontreusement, Ah Dan se dispute avec sa petite sœur sur les lieux du tournage et elle finit par blesser l’actrice principale. Pour payer sa dette, elle va devoir laisser sa facette de garçon manqué de côté pour devenir une fille très féminine en remplaçant l’actrice. Elle va se retrouver face à l’acteur principal, Justin, qui, derrière son côté arrogant, cache un grand cœur.
Heartbroken Jin (Dylan Kuo) believes he will never fall in love again. Ending up in Ximending (the cultural-fashion hub of Taipei) after wandering for 12 years, Jin meets the happy go lucky Moé (Amber An), who resuscitates his heart. At the same time, Jin becomes an apprentice to a fortuneteller named Oracle (Anthony Wong), who is the nexus of a list of quirky characters who reside in Ximending. They include Mommy (Denny Tsao), the self proclaim Queen of the district. Ace (Jett Lee), a young punk about town who dreams of becoming an idol singer. Aniki (Toyoharu Kitamura), a tattoo artist and a self-proclaimed Japanese gangster. Seemingly mismatched, these eclectic individual's paths intertwine, inexplicably affecting one another and in turn, the pulse of today's Taipei.
The Glass Box is based on the lives of two young women in Taiwan. Claudia is a 23-year-old North American who has reluctantly come to Asia with her boyfriend to teach English at a cram school. Yin-May, also twenty-three, was born and raised in Taiwan by her father in a fishing community on the island of Chijin. It compares and contrasts the two people from different cultures in an unusual set of circumstances.
Yu Rou(Ruby Lin), a struggling mother who takes extreme measures in ensuring her daughter Xiao Hong (Ni Ni), who is diagnosed with Bardet-Biedl syndrome, to have good health. While working as a part-time taxi driver, Yu Rou eavesdrops on a conversation about the easy life of a rich man's mistress and decides to seduce the rich-but-impotent Jin Xiao Jie (Edison Huang)...