A poor army veteran in Taiwan adopts a daughter. She grows up and leaves him to enter show business. When she becomes famous she shuns her father and friends.
Social & External
The people behind it
Vickey Liu
Mei
Sun Yueh
Uncle Ya
Ng Siu-Gong
Shih Chun Mai
Lee Li-Chun
Ah Man
Hsiao Hou Tao
Ah Kun
Chin Pin
Chih Lan
Su Chu
Ya's neighbor
Chen Chi-Chun
Chu Feng-Kang
Soldier / Ya's neighbor
Yee Hung
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