Luk Mo-jing (Lee Yi-nin) aspires to a life of independence and self-reliance. When her brother forces her to marry a rich factory owner, she escapes to another town. There, she meets a man she loves (Kwong Shan-siu). She believes that free love will bring her happiness, but discovers that he is weak, incapable, and not someone she wants to spend the rest of her life with. So she leaves him and single-handedly raises adopted daughter Sau-wah (Leong Tim-tim) while establishing a vocational school for girls from disadvantaged families. Through the struggles of mother and daughter, the film portrays the increase in popularity, then passing down to the next generations and finally the downfall of the institution of women choosing not to get married, showing another choice for women in the 1930s who wish to escape male domination.

The quality of the picture and sound tracks of this film have deteriorated due to age, but the realism of the script is an accurate reflection of the details of life at the time.

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