This chronicle of a middle - age couples experience adopting a young girl in the neighborhood makes no attempt to rattle its audience with sensational issues or situations . no harsh portraits of social injustice or malicious class exploitation here , just simple city life and genuine human emotions . li han - hsiang s storytelling gift is on full display , as he stays out of the drama with understated but effective direction 李翰祥選用大量實景配上精致的廠景,把中產階層的生活和人情世故描繪得極有質感,王引胡蝶王愛明好戲連場,樂蒂杜娟金銓王沖等一眾影星亦令人眼前一亮。