A professor of Chinese civilization is faced with a dilemma when he promises his life companion that he will ask his influential father, a state councilor, to help an illegal alien friend avoid deportation. However, the father has always disliked his son, and the son reciprocates the feeling, making the situation even more complicated.
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A desperate wife's mounting anxiety drives her to urge her husband to obtain vital documents from his powerful and controlling father, a government official.