Huai River floods in the fall of 1950 and a volunteer army must fight both the raging river as well as imperialist spies keen to sabotage the relief work.

Ah Peng meets a girl named Jinhua at a festival and they agree to meet the next year but she fails to turn up. He searches for her and finds other girls named Jinhua.

Three Chinese women with vastly different backgrounds get acquainted and become friends amid the social desolation of New York.