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Different styles of dining can also be portrayed as different types of life. Restaurant hostess, Liu Fen-Fang, prepares a feast for the new opening of her restaurant. Deep in her heart, however, she also experiences her most bitter moment. Her family is shattered when she hears news of her husband's affair. Fen-Fang considers marriage as her forever refuge. She never expects to face such crisis. She alone must continue to persist. The couple, seemingly in harmony, but at odds, are managing restaurants together at the same time. Fen-Fang's good friend, Yi-Rong, helps manage the restaurant.Restaurant's customers, a mainland General and a local councilman, are in opposition. From refusing to give in to becoming in-laws, everyone stages their taste of life. This urban implication of the multiple aspects of life, people with prestige and beauty, hidden struggles and temptation, are all portrayed through dining.

A fine art restorer discovers a famous painting from decades ago that triggers her curiosity about the deceased painter and his life.

The film, adapted from the Chung Chao-Cheng novel of the same title, The Song of Cha-Tian Mountain, depicts the intellectual tyranny of the occupiers at the end of the Second World War and the way that educated persons resisted the war. A Taiwanese man, Lu Zhixiang, well educated in Japan and a judo master, returns to Taiwan to live up to his high ideals.