The Orderly

Cai, a housewife who seems to have lost track of who she is and who she wants to be. During her daughter's basketball matches, she hurts an elderly woman. This event turns out to be a catalyst for a life that is spinning out of control.

It tells the story of young lovers who tries to build a life together until career opportunities sends them to a different country where their relationship will be tested.

In the beginning of the industrial revolution, the Paris Commune was established in 1871 against the rich and the powerful, and violently repressed by the army that remained faithful to a tamer form of Republicanism. How could the love story between a young sales girl and a soldier unable to decide if he was pro or against the radical fashion? Two short months were needed for the answer to be found - in blood and tears, and under rain that washes all past memories. Any day, a New Babylon shop will open with frilly things for the bourgeois girls. The washerwomen will be there to wash them.

For the sake of her future with the father of her two children, she commits a crime so grave that he withdraws from her. Feeling betrayed she tries to fill the void with sex and religion; but resentment drives her to revenge.

In the early 1900s Alfred Polly, still hankering after his dream girl Christabel, marries Miriam Larkins and they open a shop, but as the years go by, the marriage becomes stale and Polly feels trapped. He decides to stage his own death by burning down the shop but becomes an accidental hero when he saves a deaf old lady from the flames. He gives Miriam the insurance payout and decides to go walkabout. He gets a job at a country pub, the Potwell Inn, run by a kind landlady, but her violent nephew Jim is driving the customers away and Polly reluctantly faces up to him. Jim is drunk and falls into the river and drowns, wearing a pair of trousers stolen from Polly with Polly's name inside, so at last Polly has his perfect escape as he's assumed to be the corpse. After a visit to Miriam, who is now perfectly happy running a tea-shop, he returns to the Potwell Inn and the idyllic life he always craved.

Ching, a stuttering high school girl, runs a used lingerie business online with her best friend, Rachel. Buried in the unethical business, Ching embellishes the relationship with her buyers, gaining the attention she has always longed for.