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Ann Hui`s excellent film charts the tragi-comic downfall of a middle-aged woman, left behind by the changing times and the new materialism. Mrs. Ye leads a frugal life in a shabby old apartment in Shanghai, still clinging to the ideals of honesty, decency, selflessness and social responsibility that the Communist Party inculcated back in the 1950s. But she clashes with her nephew Kuan-Kuan when he`s parked on her to convalesce from a broken leg. And her occasional other-worldliness leaves her wide open to con artists, such as Pan Zhichang, a charming fraud who seduces her with poetry, romances her--and leads her into a costly graveyard-plot scam. Only when Mrs. Ye`s resentful daughter shows up in an emergency do we hear some home truths which put her life and attitudes into a very different perspective...