The film opens in the present day, where Lin Truly (Joe Chen) is an ordinary office worker who leads a stressful life.
This brings her back to her high school days, when she was an ordinary high-school girl, who idolized Lau and lived a simple, care-free life.
She had a crush on Ouyang Fei-Fan, (Dino Lee), the school's most popular male student, and had two good girl friends.
One day, seventeen-year-old Lin (Vivian Sung) receives a chain letter, warning her of impending doom if she does not pass the message on.
Throughout the year, Lin Truly and Hsu Tai-yu begin to understand each other better, and their friendship evolves as they began to learn a thing or two about true love.
During a camping trip together with their friends, Lin Truly and Tai-yu both promise to never forget each other after they go their separate ways after high school.
The day before Lin Truly's birthday, she receives a recording from Tai-yu as a present, which she is to listen only after the university entrance exam.
Hsu Tai-yu later discovers that he has a blood clot in his brain, caused by the car accident and further exacerbated by his frequent brawling and falls.
Hsu Tai-yu tells that he can finally fulfill his promise made in High School of getting Andy Lau to sing for her, and they both reunite.
Our Times is the directorial debut for Frankie Chen, who previously produced Taiwanese television dramas.
[7] Out of Asia, Our Times was screened during the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival on 8 November 2015.
[11] This has led to accusations that Hualien International Film, which counts major Taiwanese cinema chains Ambassador and Showtime as investors, deliberately stopped the release of box office results so that it could falsify reports of the film's box office performance.
[12] The film grossed over NT$5,000,000 from its sneak preview screenings prior to its official box office launch.
[4] It described the film's plot-line as "excessively saccharine will-they-won’t-they affair" and advised viewers "to simply surrender to the wave of sentimentality".