An orphaned girl in a poverty-stricken neighborhood is adopted by a kindly neighbor. He struggles to support her honestly, despite opportunities to participate in a neighbor’s scurrilous get-rich-quick schemes. Invoking the pain of Chinese exiles living in Taiwan, or missing relatives still in China, the touching film posits an in-between historical period during which it is crucial for displaced residents to maintain virtue as a bedrock of identity.
Length 90 minutes
Yu Hua Ho | You Min Ko | Lui Ming | Li Kuan-Chang | Yu-Chen Li | Wan-lin Lo | Tai Leung | Cho Kin | Hsiao Ping Tsui | Ling Wan | Wang Sun | Yang Fang | Ching Yao | Yu Chuan | Ou Yun-Lung | Liu Wai