Amid a rapidly changing cityscape, the lives of a disparate group of swindlers, hustlers, gangsters, and expats collide, with a naive French teenager and a sensitive young local who tries to protect her caught dangerously in the middle.

Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank and his business partners make bad decisions.

宜兰青年林育信（彭于晏 饰）曾经在体操队度过了快乐的少年时代，那时活泼好动的小阿信拥有出色的天分而颇得教练器重，但年岁渐长，阿信先天的长短脚令他的体操水平难以提高，又拗不过开水果铺的母亲要求，只得终止训练卖水果，并与好友菜脯（柯宇纶 饰）日日在街头和各路人马拼斗，并因此结缘为他传递打杀通知的电话秘书559（林辰唏 饰）。为了替昔日体操队友的摊档出头，阿信和菜脯开罪黑道大哥之子木瓜（陈汉典 饰），并连番让木瓜出丑，木瓜诱使菜脯吸毒，为阿信设下陷阱，结果反被菜脯重伤。阿信和菜脯只得远赴台北躲祸，少年时的体操梦，此时已变得模糊不清……

Introverted Weichung has been married to Feng for nine years. They have one son together, and Feng would like to have another child with him. One day Stephen, an old friend who now organises weddings, appears and encourages Weichung to return to the gay life he had previously. Anxious not to lose his wife, Weichung tentatively begins seeing a flight attendant behind Feng's back.

本剧改编自日本作家陈舜臣的同名小说，这部作品是台裔直木赏作家陈舜臣唯一一本以台湾为场景的长篇推理小说，这也是陈舜臣的作品首次在华文世界被影像化。
1946年，货船“朝风丸”载满了归心似箭的旅日台湾人回到基隆港。因侦破杀人案而声名大噪的中国留学生陶展文，也随着好友杨辉铭前来菩萨庄提亲，却遇上离奇的杀人案…

Hsu Zi Qi is a young woman who lives alone in the city. Lee is the autistic son of Zi Qi's landlady, who tries to free himself from his protective mother. Feng is a shy young builder, who struggles with the constant breakdowns of his car.