Kim-Hong Nguyen

Yu Ting, a 16-year-old high school student, comes home one day to find a "sister" of her age, her cousin from Vietnam, her mother’s hometown. Yu Ting's mother has promised to get the underage girl to work in Taiwan under the disguise of her "adopted" daughter Yu Lan.

Yu Ting, a 16-year-old high school student, comes home one day to find a "sister" of her age, her cousin from Vietnam, her mother’s hometown. Yu Ting's mother has promised to get the underage girl to work in Taiwan under the disguise of her "adopted" daughter Yu Lan.

Follows Vietnamese migrant workers, to examine the reasons behind their numerous escapes and to trace the family situations of those who were deported from Taiwan.

The film begins with a new immigrant woman’s personal experience and goes on to depict the broken marriages of four immigrant women in Taiwan. They are faced with different family issues but all end up in failed marriages. Like other immigrant women, the four characters Yu-lan, Jin-lin, A-shi, and Mei-li all came to Taiwan in pursuit of happiness, only to find themselves disappointed.