The film encompasses a cleaned out movie chief named Lik. He as of late lost his mom who left him with his dad Yat-hung. The elderly person has dementia and necessities consistent consideration.
One evening, Lik's dad comes to him in wet night robe, having peed himself for the fifth opportunity in a day. A maddened Lik hauls the unfortunate elderly person into the washroom and locks him inside. Just later, he washes the lament with liquor and chooses to commit the unbelievable. Seconds prior to kicking the bucket, something bizarre occurs in Lik's condo.
The more youthful variant of his mom shows up out of the ice chest and recoveries him. Then, at that point, comes the next morning. Lik abruptly recollects about his dad and races to the washroom. Yat-hung is slumped down in the latrine, still sleeping. Lik attempts to pull him back yet is stunned when he understands his dad is light as a quill. Incidentally, Yat-hung has shed his skin for the time being and what Lik just contacted is the external layer of his body and his outfit. Still in shock, Lik hears his dad's voice contending with somebody outside. He is ground floor conversing with a lot of young people about music and sports. It is a peculiar sight for Lik in light of the fact that he hasn't seen his dad have a reasonable discussion in years. It is as though his dementia has been marvelously relieved. Lik accepts something is off with Yat-hung and is stressed over his wellbeing.
Yat-hung, then again, almost certainly recalls all that occurred before he was determined to have dementia. He even thinks the shedding of skin is typical like season and burn from the sun stripping. Some time later, he hurries to the market and converses with the merchants as he used to before. He recollects every one of their names and can do complex math quicker than a mini-computer. In any case, when he attempts to purchase vegetables, he is approached to take care of his obligations first. Before long, the whole market pursues him since he is obligated to nearly everybody. After in some way moving away from them, Lik brings Yat-hung to the emergency clinic. At first, Yat-hung contends that he is entirely fine and doesn't have to get checked yet in the wake of perceiving how lovely the medical caretaker is, he is prepared to check it out.
The specialist is shown the outcomes from a CAT check which shocks him. Yat-hung's dementia has been restored at an extraordinary rate and maybe he has matured back decade. The specialist thinks Lik is attempting to play out a protection extortion and has brought an alternate individual rather than his dad. They are removed from the clinic and Lik's inquiries regarding his dad stay unanswered. In the accompanying scene, the dad and child are back home. Yat-hung gathers his skin to toss it in the waste yet Lik stops him. He figures it very well may be valuable later on however Yat-hung finds it nauseating to take care of himself.
As they battle to snag the skin, Lik's significant other Sasa jumps in. She is here to inquire as to whether he marked the legal documents yet is diverted by the skin which is currently sitting on the couch. Yat-hung doesn't recall Sasa and Lik having conjugal issues and requests that she stay in the house. Nonetheless, Sasa is burnt out on her significant other's awful choices. Besides, he went behind her back with his secondary school darling. She no longer needs to be with him and orders him to sign the papers in seven days. Then, at that point, Lik and Yat-hung have a long talk about how Lik's life ended up being like this. The fundamental justification behind his disappointment is his secondary school sweetheart Chi-mi.
On the night when Lik's most memorable film tumbled, Chimi came to meet him with a cigarette in her grasp. He wanted consolation which he tracked down in her adoration. Nonetheless, the issue broke his marriage, and the cigarette torched the studio he put all his cash on. It was the start of his destruction. Before long, he got legal documents from his significant other. Then, he was thumped by predatory lenders who made him sign a paper that gives them the right to his organs. On the off chance that he doesn't take care of them in the following three months, they will offer his organs to bring in cash.
Yat-hung feels awful for Lik however realizes that all that happened was his shortcoming and no other person's. Yat-hung even faults Lik for pushing his mom to an early demise with all his awful choices. Lik can simply listen in light of the fact that he realizes it is valid. The next morning, Lik awakens to one more piece of skin lying in his home. Yat-hung has once more transformed more youthful and changed into his forty-year-old self. Lik heads outside and finds him contending with two cops about smoking standards. Lik assists him with disposing of the police and carries him to the arena where they used to go when he was in secondary school. They reenact the days of yore when Lik had no issues throughout everyday life.
Without precedent for years, the dad and child feel like they actually love one another. Later on, they are at home when somebody thumps on the entryway. It is, as a matter of fact, Lik's secondary school sweetheart Chimi. She just got separated and is frantic to reunite with Lik. She makes an honest effort to entice him while Lik makes an honest effort to send her away. When nothing works, he holds a kitchen blade at her and undermines her to leave. Yet, before that Sasa shows up and finds her better half with the young lady he cheated with. The two ladies will not withdraw or disappear.
Chimi attempts to make Sasa desirous by telling her how Lik used to treat her while Sasa calls her the other lady. They are intruded on by one more thump on the entryway. This time, an attractive youthful person strolls in who Lik botches for Jackie Chang from snake in the hawk's shadow. Yet, the man ends up being Yat-hung who has changed his skin for the third time. On being asked where the skin is, he says he left it in the roads since it was rubbish. Lik promptly runs outside to get the skin back. As far as he might be concerned, it isn't simply a layer. The skin was the best his dad has at any point been. Subsequent to thinking back about his experience growing up yesterday, Lik has at long last acknowledged how significant his dad has been a major part of his life.
He searches for the skin in all aspects of the area, overlooking the weighty precipitation. Then, at that point, he at long last finds it held tight a shaft in a rear entryway. Lik embraces the skin as his own dad and brings him back home. At this point, Yat-hung is cooking in the kitchen, pleased that he is getting his childhood back. This form of him isn't what Lik knew his dad to be. At the point when Yat-hung ridicules the assortment of skins, they get into a contention. This helps Lik to remember the awful times he had with his dad, similar to when he undermined his mom and ignored the family. The contention transforms into a fistfight when Yat-hung transparently owns up to cheating. Lik holds him to the ground and is going to hurt him yet he sees his mom's image behind the scenes and stops. Yat-hung ridicules him for being feeble and requests that he escape the house on the grounds that the house is still under his name.
A few seconds after the fact, he feels terrible seeing Lik cry and shows him a bobby pin that his significant other went out before. Yat-hung believes Lik should seek after Sasa and bring her back into his life. Assuming he can't do even that, Yat-hung vows to repudiate him. Rather than going to Sasa, Lik winds up in the possession of the predatory lenders. They tie him up and are going to take his organs out. Out of nowhere, Yat-hung makes a Jackie Chang-style section on a bike. At first, he compromises the hooligans however as they hold their weapons to his neck, he does a one-eighty and pretendas to be a bystander. The hoodlum asks Yat-hung to apologize to be let free.
Notwithstanding, Yat-hung is a severe supporter of the truism that sorry ought to possibly be said if one feels as such. He attempts to get off the snare by confusing the criminals yet it doesn't work. They continue to whip him while Lik hollers behind the scenes. Out of nowhere, Yat-hung goes through another change. His skin tears uncovering the tissue under and making the criminals take off in dread. Following that, he ascends the bar and emerges from his more seasoned skin. Lik is stunned to have seen a change continuously.
His dad stands exposed, shrouded in a vile substance in a creature like structure. Lik figures out how to open the chains utilizing the bobby pin yet when he is free, Yat-hung has previously vanished. Later around evening time, Lik gets back to see that it has totally changed into Yat-hung's home when he was in his twenties. He was working for the Chinese air base in the conflict and was as of late hitched to Lik's mom. Yat-hung says that he needs to go to Hong Kong to get his significant other back.
Lik acknowledges he doesn't recall her passing and comes clean with him. Yat-hung's heart breaks for the 100th time as he hunches down in a corner. From that point onward, he takes his child to the last flight that he guided. The dad and child appreciate flying for some time before they crash. This crash really occurred previously and caused Yat-hung to lose half of the vision in his eyes which is the reason he needed to resign. They return to the condo where Yat-hung keeps recounting the tales of the past. Out of nowhere, twenty years of age Lik's mom bursts into the room.
Close by the house, Yat-hung's creative mind has showed his significant other too. She starts cooking noodles for themselves and its smell gets back into the game to life. Lik additionally transforms into his more youthful self and welcomes all variants of his dad to eat. They lounge around the table like a family and partake in the dinner together.
All Yat-hungs fault each other for how their life ended up and arrive at the resolution that the thirty-year-old Yat-hung who betrayed his better half was the most awful rendition of all. Eventually, they need to go to the latrine at the same time. Lik turns around into his more established rendition and thanks his mom for all that she has done. He wishes her farewell with tears in his eyes, realizing that she has come to him to show the correct way throughout everyday life. Out of nowhere, a quake hits and their home flies very high. Lik looks outside and sees his dad partaking in a plane ride. He at long last feels like the individual he was before his life as well
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