An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a
mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his
colleagues he never ages and has walked the earth for 14,000 years.
When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New
Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor
and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.
A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely,
eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a
forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.
Jun arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, hoping to be able to earn
enough money to marry his girlfriend back home. He meets the streetwise
Qiao and they become friends. As friendship turns into love, problems
develop, and although they seem meant for each other they somehow keep
missing out.