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.
as Lin A-siao
as Shih San-tai
as Neighbor 2
as Pearl Lin
as Neighbor 1
as Chen A-fa
as Hsu Lao Tai-tai
as Doctor
as Hsu Chih-ming
as Neighbor's wife
as Chu Li-Li
as Gangster
as Neighbor 3
