Enigmatic 17-year-old high school student Lee Joo-in is a cheerful friend, a shameless daughter, a mischievous girlfriend, and a person always hard to predict. One day, some words she says in a fit of anger causes a major scene. Cracks soon appear in her formerly peaceful world.

On the grounds of a medieval German university town looms an imposing Ginkgo biloba, a tree whose longevity stands in marked contrast to three intimate, human-scaled stories.

At an authoritarian all-girls school, four misfit teens form a secret gang. Their fumbling rebellion unearths buried desires and the quiet violence of growing up in contemporary Singapore.