电影一开始，导演胡子杰（张子夫 饰）给女演员李圆满（陈翠梅 饰）讲了一个故事。　　“宫本武藏到了很老的时候，有一个年轻人来挑战他。他们约好第二天中午在山上决斗。但是宫本武藏一直到太阳到了西边才出现。年轻人非常生气，宫本武藏背对著阳光，在决斗的关键时刻，故意让年轻人对著刺眼的阳光，一瞬间把他杀了。”　　“这不是胜之不武…

　　Zhang a middle aged man struggling with a dead end job as an insurance sales person, on the verge of divorce with his wife, losing custody of her daughter and on top of all this he had to take care of his father who's suffering Alzheimer…