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Amos Lassen wrote on 05/16/2012:

Sometimes we think we know everything about pasts only to find out later that this is not true. This is what we see in the three interconnected short films here. The stories deal with love, art, family and how we live (although we see others’ lives, we can certainly identify with them).

Anna Brin is a designer who is obsessive compulsive and has a very interesting family history. Her gay brother is in the hospital dying and when she is not visiting him, she goes to a Chinese restaurant where she reads the fortune cookies and let them determine how she shall live. When the fortunes she receives begin to turn ominous, she uncovers family secrets that threaten her carefully constructed reality.

Catherine is an elderly writer and a widow who discovers that her husband might have had an affair that she knew nothing about. She is forced to decide which is more important — having been loved or deceived.

Justin has an advice column that he writes under the name Alice and he spends his life searching for truth and honesty in his relationships with others. He meets a nice and good-looking guy in a coffee shop and their first date went well. (We don’t see it). They end up in bed together and the two seem to get along well aside from the fact that the new boyfriend does not like public displays of affections. Then a bit later Justin receives a call for advice addressed to his real name that only a few people know. As an optimist, Justin insists the truth can fix any problem but when the letter comes, he ends up facing a more dangerous truth than he could have imagined.

While the script and the acting are not the best, we never really understand where this movie is going but the heart of the film tends us to overlook its faults.