Yueh’s rare attempt in directing a contemporary subject of premarital pregnancy. He Youwei (Jimmy Wang Yu) and Yang Jinping (Chiao Chuang) were classmates and both fell in love with Jiang Wenlan (Fong Ying). Youwei proposed to Wenlan first and Jinping chose to study overseas. Unfortunately, Youwei was killed in a plane crash before the marriage and Wenlan found out that she was pregnant and decided to rear the child by herself. Concerned for her daughter’s future, Wenlan’s mother taught her grandchild to call Wenlan “Auntie Lan”. However, Wenlan believed that her true love would “love her as well as the ones she loved.” A Hong Kong-style Jules and Jim (1962) story can never be as free and individualistic as the French counterpart. Auntie Lan cannot talk of love without family love and  friendship. Yueh was in his elements to depict dilemmas and even more ambitious to take on a modern and progressive theme of demanding Lan’s suitor to love both the woman and her child. This was a heavy subject, yet with some romance and light-heartedness Yueh was able to lift it up.

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