12 STOREYS

The film depicts a day in the life of a block of residential flats in Singapore. All the action occurs within or around this block, within a 24-hour period. The film opens with an early morning suicide, and the audience subsequently sees the action from the point of view of the dead man, whose spirit drifts from unit to unit, quietly observing. Three main story lines are interwoven: Ah Gu, a middle-aged tofu-soup hawker has brought home a sexy young wife from China; San San, an overweight, single woman lives alone, with only the memory of her nagging mother to keep her company; with his parents away, upright, politically correct, but overbearing eldest brother Meng takes the opportunity to lord it over his younger siblings, Trixie and Tee.