方宁（刘若英 饰）带着五岁的儿子和丈夫郭文亮（黄品源 饰）移民来到了加拿大，为了维持生计，郭文亮整日在外工作，被忽视的方宁则同许多和她有着一样遭遇的“移民太太”们待在一起打发着时间。郭文亮的父母也来到了加拿大，没想到两人却成为了矛盾的导火索。 郭文亮口袋里的陌生口红仿佛在向方宁示威，怎么也想不到丈夫竟然有外遇的方宁一时间陷入了不知所措之中，就在这个节骨眼上，一个名叫西恩（Michael Telgen 饰）的英俊男人走进了方宁的生活，想要和丈夫感同身受的方宁决定在西恩的身上体验一下外遇的感觉。人那么强大，却无法控制自己的感情，方宁感到整个事件都在走向失控的边缘。

Set in China in the 1930s, the film is about the unsettling relationship between three characters, each involved with a performance of the opera Fleeing by Night in a local theatre.

A story of three couples and their intertwining love stories set in 1940s Taiwan and Shanghai, centered around the 1949 sinking of Taiping.

At the end of the World War II and the middle of the Chinese Revolution, three couples from different backgrounds with different nationalities flee from China to the island of Taiwan.

During World War II era, a young woman, Wang Jiazhi, gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with a powerful political figure, Mr. Yee.

Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physically-skilled, teenage nobleman's daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life.