在这部丈夫的秘密家庭片中,秋薇和麗雲從前是同窗密友。失聯數年，家境富裕的秋薇已經招贅夫婿，可惜一直沒能懷孕；而麗雲則遇人不淑，墮入風塵獨自養育兒子愛松，並且四處躲避舊情人勝烈的勒索。這對好友久別重逢，秋薇也多少幫忙著生活快過不下去的麗雲。然而秋薇的丈夫守義發現太太的好朋友麗雲，竟是自己四年前的舊情人，誤會愛松是自己的兒子；而麗雲知道舊情人守義竟是好姊妹的丈夫，只得帶著愛松再度遠離，風波由此開始…。
In a love triangle, it takes two to keep a secret. When Tshiu-bi comes home with news that she ran into an old classmate, Le-hun, her husband Siu-gi is struck by the thunder of guilt, regret, and repressed desire. What his wife doesn't know is that Le-hun and her husband are former lovers. And when Tshiu-bi invites the homeless Le-hun into their home and lives, that thunder becomes an emotional typhoon of heart-pounding restraint. Le-hun can't say a word either. Not to her caregiving old friend. Not in front of her four-year-old son who Siu-gi suspects might be his. This is black-and-white melodrama of the tallest order, the kind that straddles the innocence of domesticity and the qipao-ripping salaciousness of the nightclub film. It's also Taiwanese-language cinema at its most delightfully unbridled, with questions of class answered through secrets and tears. Director Lin Tuan-chiu's background in Japan shows, from the Naruse-esque dive into the inner worlds of women, to the soundtrack's cosmopolitan flair for jazz and classical. Preceding the better-known Pai Ching-jui, Lin infuses Taiwan locales with a sense of cinematic innovation: frames-within-frames, flashbacks-within-flashbacks. He also exhibits a sexual frankness that shows Taiwanese-language cinema to be far more daring than its uptight Mandarin cousins. In other words, this new restoration is a major re-discovery for Taiwanese cinema, a secret no more.
