PRINCE OF TEARS

Set around 1950s in Taiwan, an anti-Communist campaign swept the island and hysteria reigned. On one autumn afternoon, two young sisters return from school to find their once happy home ransacked by military police and their parents arrested and accused of being Communist spies. The film follows a quartet of characters like the dashing air force officer father, his beautiful devoted wife, a mysterious scar-faced bureaucrat and a general's glamorous wife. Their lives and loves intertwine until everything erupts in a rhapsody. Amid life in that turbulent era, friendship, passion, high-minded ideals and dignity are all put on trial in the courtroom of human desire.