A-Tai (Alan Ko) narrates that he is the son of Uncle Da (Chen Po-cheng) and Aunt Da (Samantha Ko), who run a troupe in Taichung. Uncle Da's troupe does traditional performance in front of religious processions. The religion requires performers to "initiate the faces and pose as gods"—to put on a special face painting, or to put on a heavy body puppet costume, both of these represent gods' persona. The performance demands training of martial art, acrobatics and endurance, and the performers are negatively associated with gangsters by the society. Uncle Da has been competing with Wu-cheng (Liao Jun), who studied with Uncle Da under the same master. A-Tai grew estranged with his father and the troupe, and went to Taipei to study Rock music, until a mysterious old man in blue coat bids him home.

小杨是一名正值青春的青涩少年，岁月更替，他之中睁着充满了好奇与希冀的双眼，打量着这个不断变化着的世界和身边不断成长的朋友们。让小杨感到在意的是，似乎是在突然之间，他周围的所有人似乎都陷入了感情漩涡之中。
小杨的父亲阿宾（钟镇涛 饰）认识了邻居小莉（隋棠 饰），趣味相投的两人之间距离越来越近，母亲敏敏（李烈 饰）亦将感情转移到了和她熟识的裁缝（马志翔 饰）身上，与此同时，小杨的好友小马（巫建和 饰）亦陷入了三角恋的情感风波中，时常殃及小杨。看着每个人脸上困苦的表情，小杨开始思考起来，如果爱情带来的只有波折和悲伤，那我们为什么还要爱呢？