Ah-ba di bing (The Daughter-in-Law)

This is a pas-de trois love story involving a Taiwanese war veteran Ah Dee, his adop­ted son and his daughter-in-law. The story spans 20 years from Ah Dee's service under Japanese com­mand during World War II to his life as a bamboo farmer in the mid 1960's. Traumatized by the war, Ah Dee has been una­ble to marry. Hoping still to start a family he adopts a son Spring who later finds a woman to marry. When Spring leaves for military service, Ah-Dee falls hopelessly in love with his daughter-in-law, producing a tale rich with dreams and night­mares and strange ironies of hate and love. As a result, his identity as a man can neither be found in the past nor in the future…