Fei Huang was born in 1917 in Republic of China. He was an actor, known for Farewell My Concubine (1993) and Journey to the West (1986). He died in 1999 in China.
An unscrupulous troublemaker suffering from erectile dysfunction has his world turned sideways, as an angel from above teaches him the consequences of sex and love, and why the two cannot be forced.
Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history.