Sylvia Chang

The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.

Three women in different stages of their lives - 20, 30, 40 - face the hardships of the female existence.

Twins, who are separated at birth, finally meet in adulthood. They struggle to lead normal lives after they are continuously mistaken for the other.

During a 1937 Shanghai bombing, a soldier and a woman meet under a bridge and promise to reunite post-war. 10 years later, she's a singer who helps a country girl. The girl falls for her upstairs neighbor - the same soldier. In 1937 Shanghai, a soon-to-depart soldier meets a young woman under a bridge during a Japanese air raid. They vow to meet after the war ends, but they don't each other's name or face. Ten years later, the young woman, a nightclub singer, takes in a naive girl fresh from the country. The country girl falls in love with the would-be song-writer upstairs who, unbeknownst to the singer, is none other than the soldier from the bridge. —Erik Gregersen <erik@astro.as.utexas.edu>

To help his sister with her debts, John goes to a pawnshop when robbers rush in. John draws suspicion from the police and only escapes from them with the help of Bunny, who is a kid running out from an orphanage.