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.
A story of a businessman who accidentally boards a train bound for Russia with his mother and has to overcome difficulties with his mother and problems in his family life.
A film loosely based on 4 of the 10 interviews in an 1988 article called Women Speak by Xiang Ya. It focuses on the romantic relationships of 4 fashionable urban women in the same office, 3 of whom are involved in an extramarital relationship.
Lili passed her singing examination and is accepted in the Children‘s Art Troupe. As she arrives home to tell her parents the good news, she find them quarreling.
