Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother-in-law is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank and his business partners make bad decisions.
Yi Yi is a 2000 Taiwanese drama film written and directed by Edward Yang. It centers on the struggles of an engineer, NJ, and three generations of his middle-class Taiwanese family in Taipei.