In Paris, Chinese cinema student Song Fang is hired to work as the nanny of Simon by his divorced mother Suzanne, who works voicing marionettes in a theater. Suzanne is having troubles with her tenant Marc, who does not pay the rent, while she waits for the return of her older daughter Louise, who lives with her father in Brussels.

Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou

Writer: Hsiao-Hsien Hou, François Margolin

Actors: Juliette Binoche, Hippolyte Girardot, Simon Iteanu

Production: N/A