In Shanghai in 1935, Shen Qingyue, a famous Peking opera actress who was half the world famous, captivated everyone on the stage, but off the stage she guarded an unknown past. Until Lu Chengzhou, a young banker who returned from studying abroad, broke into her world with new ideas and an old photo. In and out of the play, under the neon lights of a foreign market, a cross-class love grows with difficulty amid war and rumors.
