Echoing the plot of Germany's The Blue Angel (1930), the film adaptation of Ma Si-tsang's Cantonese opera is a tragicomedy about the temptation of the "wild flower". Singer Wah (Mui Yee) and engineering student Chun (Law Kim-long) fall for each other. Chun's father Tak (Leung Sing-po) is hell-bent on breaking them up, only to find himself falling heads over heels for Wah. As he tries to disown Chun, he lands himself in deeper trouble while Wah takes his money to send Chun overseas. On the surface, Wah the femme fatale seems to be the one to be blamed for everything, but the film deviates from the femme fatale formula by showing that Tak is actually the one at fault for trying to break up the couple. The final chorus draws attention to the contradictory love-hate relationship Chinese cinema has always had with "wild flowers" as if Mui Yee, in one of her last screen appearance and also funded by herself, is determined to talk back to all the "wild flower" characters she has played throughout her career.

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