Like its predecessors, it deals with the complicated issues of Taiwanese history and national identity.

In the 1940s, she and her newlywed husband, Chung Hao-tung (Lim Giong), head to mainland China to join the anti-Japanese resistance.

After the war they return to Taiwan, as Chung is to distribute a communist paper called The Enlightenment.

However, as the Korean War deepens, Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang government intensifies the White Terror and Chung is executed.

Hitchcock With a Chinese Face: Cinematic Doubles, Oedipal Triangles, and China's Moral Voice.