Forty-something Cecilia higher often called Sissy to her buddies is a cheery and vivacious seamstress. Wai Mun, her husband of a few years is the captain of an acclaimed Chinese language restaurant. Though considerably discontented with life since his migration from Hong Kong to Singapore, he and Sissy are a loving couple and revel in a blissful marriage. They've a 15-year-old son and a nine-year-old daughter who has a really shut relationship with Sissy and is a supply of nice cheer and luxury to her. In a coincidence, an surprising incidence befalls their seemingly mediocre and uneventful lives. Sooner or later as Sissy feels a tough lump in her left breast. A gush of complicated feelings overwhelms her.
