
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