A Handful of Love

YUEN is a disciplined househusband who works as a part-time piano instructor. On the contrary, his wife TING, free-spirited and capable, is a director in a television station. Following his sister’s untimely death and the subsequent death of his brother-in-law from an illness, YUEN gave up his teaching job to raise his five nephews and nieces, all the while concealing the tragic news from the children. Every day, YUEN sends YAN, YEE, LAI, CHI and SHUN off to school and picks them up after school. CHI gets in a fight with a classmate who teases YUEN for being a homebound father. Upon returning home, CHI calls YUEN a disgrace. A debate among the siblings on the differences between sexes ensues. YUEN and TING decide to swap roles in the family. TING, who is clueless about housework, puts nothing but fast food on the table for the family of five……

A startled TING lies to the children that the picture was cropped from a recent photo of their father for business purposes. YUEN and the children visit TING on the set. SHUN is stunned by the brutal murder scenes and has serious doubts over TING’s tutelage. A speechless TING has to revise the plot accordingly. As a yearly ritual, YUEN and TING take the children out to celebrate their wedding anniversary, but AUNT LAURA chastises YUEN for a lack of romance and ill-treating his wife. YUEN brings a commemorative cake to the set, but TING is too busy to appreciate YUEN’s gift. Deep in the night, the couple shares the cake under candlelight, but their rare intimate moment is cut short when LAI alerts the police thinking that a robber has broken into the kitchen. The children realize that a private moment is what the couple needs and pool their money to pay for their cruise journey. TING is overjoyed but YUEN is worried……

YUEN’s best friend and matchmaker LEUNG is a screenwriter. Eager to hand in a script to TING, LEUNG asks YUEN to accompany him to shop for a PC, but YUEN is busy choosing an electronic dictionary for YAN. LAI and CHI want video games for Christmas but YUEN insists on giving them educational games as presents. The children are upset, but YUEN turns a deaf ear to TING’s advice. YEE, a star basketball player at school, suffers verbal abuse from a fierce opponent of a neighboring school. The careless TIGN has given more money than LAI and CHI needed for school by mistake. The two have spent the extra money on buying computer games which they had longed for, only to be found out and scolded by YUEN afterwards. YEE wins a close tie, but in the heat of the game, she breaks the arm of the opponent, who happens to be the sister of MISS LAW, class mistress of LAI and CHI. YUEN gives YEE a bitter scolding. Frustrated, YEE vows to quit the game……