The film unfolds at a National Service camp, where a Chinese trainee is tasked with leading her multi-racial female comrades in washing stained sanitary pads in the middle of the night.
Grandma’s lament about not getting what was rightfully hers led the Penang-born Baba down the path of collecting, a journey he now sees as his destiny.
The story follows a poor 14-year-old who becomes the second wife of wealthy widower Gan Joo Kheong and how she tries to curry favour with her mother-in-law.