The Second Face

Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.

The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.

The daughter of a right-winger, schoolgirl Jing Qiu is sent to the countryside for reeducation, and tasked to help write a textbook. There she meets Lao San, a young soldier with a bright future ahead. Despite the class divide and parental disapproval, romance blooms against turbulent times.

A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife of an indicted businessman.