A father obliges a young boy and takes him to watch movies at New World, Singapore’s iconic entertainment venue of the 1960s and 1970s. The boy is enthralled, growing up on a gamut of film genres. He loves both the comedies and tragedies. He laughs and cries with the characters, experiencing their joys and sorrows, and even falling in love with some of them. The line between reality and flimsy film is marred even, when unwittingly he allows a merging of his life with what goes on in the film world. Oblivious to the real world at times, he is forced to face harsh reality with the unexpected death of his father. Distraught, his escape into his make-believe world also ends suddenly when he stops watching films at the New World. 

The boy’s life’s journey is paralleled with the opening and closing of the New World Amusement Park, celebrating the glory days of a “World” lost and maybe even forgotten. For many who grew up watching movies at New World, just like the boy in the film, the place remains a memory – sweet, bittersweet, sometimes sad.