A woman's lifelong devotion to Shanghai contrasts with the transient nature of the men in her life.
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.
Stanley Kwan Kam-Pang
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