atau dikenal sebagai
A former spy in the Chinese Nationalist Party falls for an opium-dealing widow, as China is ravaged by war and revolution.
A person's life is destined to be shorter than that of a city. Having spent her whole life in Shanghai, Qiyao has her moments of prosperity and her fair share of loneliness. She finally fades and disappears but Shanghai remains a metropolitan city. Shanghai in the 1930s is glamorous and seductive.
The vigorous director of the Oriental Silk Factory is invited by her former husband to resign and take a position in Japan.
Police attempt to stop Nationalist agents from destroying public buildings in Ruancheng after the Red Army occupies the city.