AT A PLANK BRIDGE tells the story of two men during World War II, who meet accidentally on a back country road in Malaya 1945, just after the surrender of the Japanese occupation army.
Fook Leong, a Chinese middle school teacher, who is riding along a road on his bicycle, discovers a large handcart next to a bench on the road. When he stops to examine the cart, he is attacked by Chandran, who thinks that Fook Leong is a bandit.
While their initial confrontation is easily resolved, they discover very quickly, that there is a far deeper conflict between the two of them, as their destinies collide…