The Green Grass of Home

STELLA is a single trendy careerist with a good fashion sense. She loves shopping and is a good friend of MEI-KEI. STELLA’s brother SHEUNG-SHING is a taxi driver. STELLA is one of his regular passengers and fares are paid in one go on a monthly basis. STELLA and her sister-in-law LAI-NGO work in the same interior design company. Like STELLA, NGO is an environmentalist who would seek every opportunity to remind her colleagues of the importance of environmental protection. STELLA comes back home to dine with her father CHEUNG-FAT, which gives him a great thrill. STELLA’s younger sister MOON-LAM and her husband KWOK-WAI have bought FAT a massage chair. They need NGO, SHING and STELLA to share the cost, which irks their brother and sister-in-law so much that the two couples are drawn into a quarrel. STELLA has got a big client but the contractor she closely works with will not be available for the project.… ...

SING keeps pestering STELLA for the design plans, which irks STELLA no end. SING passes a dinner coupon to FAT hoping that he can have a nice gathering with his family. But things do not go the way they expected and the dinner turns out to be a bit of a disaster. SING’s assistant PLANE BOY has used the wrong tiles and tries to shift the blame onto SING’s younger brother KA-PO. SING brings PO to a pub hoping that he will meet and make more friends. KEI introduces PAUL, the chief editor of an interior design magazine, to STELLA. To everyone’s surprise, SHAN turns up suddenly and manages to outshine STELLA with her stunning sexy body. NGO’s son did not do well in his test and is too afraid to go home. LAM puts a forged signature on the boy’s test paper but gets discovered by NGO later on. NGO is so angry that she decides to call the police. SHAN tries to enlist the help of SING in her fight against STELLA, but is rejected.… ...

STELLA blames SHAN for obstructing her plan and turns to her supervisor TAK-KIN for help. She insists on calling the police and KIN has to do his best to calm her down. SING suspects that PLANE BOY may have something to do with the incident. FAT returns to his vegetable patch for the clearance of rubbish. The cleaner asks for extra charges, leaving FAT in a bit of a predicament. Luckily SHUK-KUEN passes by and quickly leaps to his defense. It is not until this moment that FAT comes to realize that KUEN is in fact the mother of SING. LAM and WAI bought an apartment years ago with a loan from FAT as the down payment. The property has slipped into negative equity since the Asian Financial Turmoil but the couple would like to hold it and wait for the price to go up again. They tell FAT that they have sold the property but as a matter of fact, they have been renting it out and enjoying steady rental income.… ...

The football team which SHING has wagered on has lost the match. WAI has secretly put a wager on the opposing team and therefore manages to win the money back. STELLA is a picky designer and SING has been trying to accommodate himself to her needs. PO learns from the Web that YUE is going to hold a street demonstration. He plans to go to the site where the demonstration is to take place so that he can return the video camera to YUE. In the confusion, both YUE and PO have fallen into the sea. YUE is so agile that she manages to save PO soon afterwards. NGO discovers that the jewelry stored at home have all been lost. Noticing that SHING has been working really hard lately, NGO begins to wonder whether he has been cheating on her. Filled with guilt and shame, SHING reveals the truth that he is being in debt. LAM suddenly apologizes to NGO.… ...

STELLA points out to KIN that she is being framed by someone. But KIN does not address her complaint and even asks KEI to take over her duties. SING is shocked to read the negative comments against PO on the Internet. He suggests PO should go and have a word with YUE. YUE holds a demonstration outside YIU’s office building. She gets stopped by WAI but SING manages to save her from the predicament. Knowing that she has misunderstood PO, YUE offers to apologize to him. She asks PO to volunteer for her environmental protection group and PO agrees to her request at once. SHAN’s design appears on the front-cover of the magazine, to which STELLA does not show much response. NGO is shocked to discover that LAM and WAI have been keeping and renting out a property. Filled with anger, she is planning to reveal the truth to FAT but is stopped by SHING immediately.… ...

STELLA has suddenly collapsed in the street. SING sends her to a clinic immediately and she is later diagnosed with severe allergic asthma. LAM and NGO pick a quarrel again. FAT is so annoyed that he decides to move to his vegetable garden. FAT offers HEI some advice on pest control, which irks him a bit nevertheless. PO goes to volunteer for YUE’s environmental protection group while PLANE BOY manages to attract media attention for the campaign organized by YUE and her friends. YUE and her friends have gathered outside YIU’s office building. YIU needs WAI to drive the crowd away as soon as he has returned to the office building. SING tries to stop WAI and YIU reveals that YUE is in fact his biological sister. YIU’s girlfriend CHI-CHING decides to stay in Hong Kong and set up a pet shop of her own.… ...