While it certainly sounds like a potentially interesting story: three couples (HK, Mainland and Korean) who go to the same mainland vacation resort spot where their respective relationships and their concomitant problems are examined and tested; it is not a particularly original one.

The story here is told through three shorter vignettes covering each couple with partially overlapping timeframes, and then moves into a fourth, longer and completely different, denouement-like vignette. The vignettes and characters are all tied loosely together through the lonely and bookish tour guide character. Again, not an altogether novel approach...but interesting enough.

The first three vignettes are well done--the third especially so--and they are believeable so as to elicit enough emotional connection to the characters to carry one into the rather unpredictable fourth vignette where the movie truly blossoms into particularly well acted and beautifully filmed artful examination of cross-cultural love under difficult circumstances--a subject that strikes particularly close to home for me.

I highly recommend this film.