An omnibus film that compresses 16 hours into one, offering glimpses of what happens beyond the monotony from 9am to 5pm. A love story between a young migrant worker and an old prostitute. A Singaporean man and a Chinese lady go on a date and meet a traffic warden spying on them. A group of fishermen take revenge on the debt collector. A director struggles to finish a film as he suspects his actress wife is having an affair with the lead actor.