Long Long Time Ago is a heart-warming story of a family living in a kampong in pre-independence Singapore, when gangsters were rife and racial tensions were high, all the way up to the present. It revolves around the life of Zhao Di who is chased out of her husband's home by his first wife when he passes away. Heavily pregnant and with three young daughters in tow, Zhao Di is forced to return to her father's house where she has to bear with her father's prejudice against her and her daughters, and find ways to make ends meet.