Li-Ann, a single and attractive teacher in a Singaporean girls' school teaches her students about an obscure leap year custom practiced in Ireland, where men cannot refuse a proposal or date from a woman should she do so on February 29; she chances upon Jeremy at Windows Cafe who becomes a major part of her life.
(Windows Cafe was an actual restaurant at Club Street, Singapore, at the time the movie was filmed.
Though by the time the film opened, it had been replaced by a new restaurant called Seven On Club.)
According to director Jean Yeo, it was added as a marketing decision to get Chen involved, as her presence could help with the distribution of the film.
[3][4] Wong's husband Allan Wu makes a very brief cameo appearance as Danny, the husband of Kim (Paula Malai Ali), during Li-Ann's second leap year of meeting Jeremy.