Yueh’s last MP & GI work has witnessed a diversion from their trademark westernized styles to a realist depiction of human relations. A widower with a son (Peter Dunn) gets married with a widow who has a daughter (Connie Chan Po-chu). What supposed to be a lovely match soon turns sour as the husband’s  rich sister keeps inducing gossips that trigger misunderstandings. On the brink of breakdown of the family, neighbours come to give a hand. Yueh took length to elaborate the details of the life of poor people: how the husband tries to smoke less and travel in the third class to save money for his son’s education, and how the wife gets extra jobs to help the family. Ironically, the English-speaking rich people who take several concubines malign the widower as inauspicious. Helen Li Mei and Chang Yang’s performance is constrained but powerful. The setting of the tenement house and its interior are worked out more meticulously than those in Cantonese films. From the rooftop full of hanging washings to the crowded streets, this is a Mandarin production that is truly local and civilian.