Akina was born into a dramatic arts family; her father is the chief actor of the Sichuan Repertory Theatre, and her mother is also a stage actor. She joined TVB after participating in the "Miss Hong Kong" campaign in 1994.
Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.
Siu Wai-ming has been haunted by a dream of a woman wearing a cheongsam for many years. When he becomes an administrative manager for an old apartment building, he meets a tenant – air stewardess Alex Cheung – who looks exactly like the woman in his dream. As they get to know each other, the apartment building seems to come to life, performing the strange and fantastical lives of the tenants who live there.
Army volunteers train for places in China's 1984 National Day parade, where they are expected to be a perfect marching unit.