A true story about communist terror in China. The film tells the life story of a young Chinese girl and her family. Before the war, her life was like a pleasant fairy tale, but during the war, her family suffered oppression at the hands of the Japanese occupiers, and the dire situation escalated when the Chinese Communists, led by Mao Zedong, seized power in China.

The protagonist’s story begins with her carefree childhood. She grew up in a loving, affluent family. Later, after the Japanese occupation of the country, her family lost the property they had owned until then.
The onset of communism in her life is linked primarily to her falling in love with a charming young man from Hong Kong, with whom she later starts a family. Because of her non-working-class background and her husband’s Hong Kong origins, both are interrogated.
Despite being pregnant, she is treated harshly and without consideration. Amid her persecution, she finds her way to God, who miraculously helps her survive even her scheduled execution.
Later, she manages to arrange things so that her husband and daughter can escape to freedom in Hong Kong. She is then sent to a labor camp to perform hard labor. Thanks to her resourcefulness and, above all, her determination, the labor camp is not her final destination.

United Kingdom, 1990
Crew: James F. Collier;
Cast: Julia Nickson, France Nuyen, James Shigeta, Russell Wong, Philip Tan, Bennett Ohta;

Parents’ Guide:
A couple in love kissing. A skirt being lifted.
Multiple instances of fighting, including blows to a pregnant woman’s stomach and other violent behavior. Suggestions of abortion. A pregnant woman forced to perform hard labor.
Alcohol consumption.
An impending execution.
Chinese folk superstitions.

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