When a young wife's indiscreet extramarital affair is discovered, she and her husband find themselves pressured into a divorce that neither of them wants, but tensions aggravated by their families' class differences seem to compel. The shorter length and abrupt ending suggest that the final reel may be missing. A clumsy and heavy-handed plea for old-school righteousness, saved only by its lavish interior settings and a shot of mixed-up Chinese telegraph code.