In 3A.D., during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, parents dress a very pretty, very privileged girl like a boy so she may be educated in a local boarding school. There, she falls in love with a poor, but handsome and industrious young man.
Two feuding families brag about their sons on christening day. One, called Long-life, is destined to die early, while Sing, the other, will do well. Twenty years pass. Long-life has survived, and he fancies pretty Hsio. In a scene stolen from My Life As A Dog, he spies on her in the shower, falls...
When her filmmaker grandfather, Liu Chi-Sheng, lands in hospital, 18-year-old Jie has him recount the love story between him and her grandmother, Chiang Mei-Yue, that happened during a visit of the film sets of Beitou.
This film follows the lives and the loss of love experienced by four separate couples, including an elderly man who falls for a woman that he had been interested in as a young man.
The story of Li Zhengsen, who was orphaned at a young age and was brought up by his grandmother, a famous Peking Opera actress, and his grandfather, a master of traditional Chinese painting.
