This story is set in 1940 in Japan when the country is preparing for war and censorship is imposed on the popular form of entertainment “engeki” (theatre), and the narrative tells of the tug of war between a playwright and a government censor. Tsubaki Hajime, a young playwright of comedies for the drama group “University of Laughs”, does all he can to try to make his work pass under the stringent eye of the die-hard government censor, Sakisaka Mutsuo. Sakisaka rejects his script time and time again, so endless revisions, objections and reconciliations ensue. Can Tsubaki finally pass the censor’s eye by sheer persistence and belief in himself? Can the play reach the stage after all?

The story is centred on an urban forest where tall buildings stand shoulder to shoulder, creating a collage of myriad lights and a sprawling wasteland with their rooftops. Four homeless nobodies find their pied-à-terre on one of them. With the stars above and humanity below, they survive under the most basic living conditions. Their highest aspiration is to fly from one rooftop to another, from this side to the other side. They do their best to offer the mortal world their mortal wishes, leaving a lone spider to meditate on their rooftop realm.

“SEVEN” depicts a property agent, Mr Wong, who one day discovers a video showing a woman having sex with a man in an apartment bedroom. As he tries to find out more about the video, he is stunned to find that everyone related to the video has a little dirty laundry. Crime and goodness are sometimes only a hair’s width apart.

Norman (Chung King-fai), aged almost eighty, is a retired professor with a brusque and sometimes acid sense of humour. Ethel (Louise Lee), ten years his junior and easy and fun to be with, is his perfect life-long partner.

They are spending this summer as usual at their home on a lake called Golden Pond. They are visited by their daughter Chelsea (Fung Wai-hang), who is somewhat estranged from her curmudgeon of a father.Chelsea, in her middle-age and divorced, introduces them to her boyfriend, Bill (Koo Tin-lung), a dentist, and his son, thirteen-year-old Billy.

Though the boy and Norman can hardly get along at first, eventually they come to enjoy each other’s company like grandfather and grandson. The rift between the father and daughter also begins to close. When summer is over, Chelsea takes Billy home. Just when the family thinks life seems to be back to normal, Norman suffers a heart attack. The sense of death is never more real, but this also makes them aware how much they love each other. Time may be running out, but they have had a wonderful life together…