In 1949, Shen Yuan came to Taiwan with her husband during the civil war between Chinese Nationalist Party and the Chinese Communist Party, and started a family in a different place. More than 40 years have passed in the blink of an eye, her sons and daughters have respectively gone to study and find jobs in foreign countries.

In 1988, on the Sunday after Mother's Day, Shen Yuan was alone at home and picked up the letter from the other side of the straits that had been blocked for 40 years. Her mother had passed away long ago. Her brother said that mother was looking forward to Yuanmei's (nick name of Shen Yuan) return home every day.

Shen Yuan looked at the family photos hanging on the wall. She closed the curtains, dragged out the camphor wood box, and dug out the cheongsams that were memories of time. She sang and danced and chatted with her mother about old-time daily life, sad and laughing feeling shared in between.

The mother's face,however, is always blurred, and what vaguely emerges is the mother's beautiful figure and distant voice...