Shower 1999 Shenzhen businessman, Da Ming, goes home to Beijing when he thinks his father has died He finds his father hard at work at the familys bathhouse the false message was a ruse of Das mentally handicapped, exuberant brother, Er Ming, to get Da home Da stays a couple days, observing his father being social director, marriage counselor, and dispute mediator for his customers and a boon companion to Er Da is caught between worlds the decaying district of his childhood and the booming south where he now lives with a wife whos not met his family When Da realizes his fathers health is failing and the district is slated for razing, he must take stock of family and future