This was another masterpiece by Yueh during his Great Wall years. The story reflected the life of grassroots Chinese during the last century. A Crosstalk performer, with his mother and wife, struggles to make a living along Flower Street. It was a peaceful time when the daughter was born shortly after the civil war. A decade later, the family was separated as they fled from the Anti-Japanese War. It was only after much hardship that they finally reunited in their hometown. Yueh and screenwriter Doe Ching did not preach about ideology, but relayed instead what the ordinary people desired most, “peace, stability and family.” Yueh’s camera brought us through the alleys to look at people’s daily lives: a bowl of  noodle, a song of street tunes, uprising against the occupiers. Morality and surviving resilient of the ordinary were finely carved onto the negatives. Despite some parts of the movie gone missing, the value of this masterpiece was not diminished.