This is a story of two women and their different ways of dealing with loneliness. Christy meets two new guys after she is dumped by her boyfriend Johnny. Although she is tempted by both, she also realizes that she must be strong. Helena, on the other hand, finds herself driven into an extra-marital affair by her husband's constant trips and a growing paranoia that he is cheating on her.

In order to get a land contract to build a highway, greedy mayor Wu Fat hires people to pretend to be ghosts to scare people out of a village. His daughter Lily arrives home from studies in England and starts investigating.