The Leap Years

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves".

Adapted from the story Leap of Love by internationally acclaimed author Dr. Catherine Lim. The radiant power of young love can overcome all twists and turns of Fate.

A young Singaporean girl who unexpectedly meets her dream man on a special day - 29 February 1988 - when a quaint old Leap Year custom allows women to make the first move in a romantic encounter. She does precisely that. Hereafter she and the dream man, both exceptionally attractive and brimming with life's hopes and dreams, are caught in a dizzying spin of events that Fate seems to like visiting upon the young lovers. "You will come together at last. But not yet, not yet," says Fate mischievously.

The lovers meet every 29 February over 12 years, in breathless negotiations of the many pitfalls along the path of true love which has never run smooth anyway, before their hopes are finally fulfilled in a spectacular millennial culmination worthy of love's loftiest dreams.

This movie could be the clincher in a date or a waste of time, depending on which side of life you live on.