China Movie: Spring River Flows East

A textile factory female worker Su Fen, meets the evening class teach Zhang Zhongliang, and falls love with him... Zhang Zhongliang loves the country, encourages people to donate for the army to fight against Japanese conquerors, this makes Manager Wen of the textile factory unhappy... Short time later, Su fen got married with Zhang Zhongliang, and they got a son after one year... The defense war starts completely, Zhang Zhongliang joins the ambulance group, leaves Shanghai, says goodbye to his family...

Su Fen goes back to the village, where her mother in-law stays, along with the son, but the Japanese conqueror has already controlled the village... Zhang Zhongliang's brother Zhang Zhongmin and a teacher Wan hua join the guerrilla to fight again the conqueror, Zhang zhongliang's father asks the Japanese to reduce foodstuff tax, but is sentenced to death... Su Fen and her mother in-law, her son come back to Shanghai, enter the refugee's fair office... Zhongliang experiences lots of difficulties, then escapes from Chongqing, but no way to make a living... He goes to Manager Wen's little aunt Wang Lizhen, who's already become a party girl, she finds a job for Zhongliang, in Pang Haogong's company, little by little, Zhongliang can't resist and gets married with Wang Lizhen... At the time Su Fen and her mother in-law are living very hardly... Zhongliang becomes personal secretary of Pang Haogong, every day deals with the people of high class, forgets about Su Fen already... The liberation war ends, Su Fen is still waiting for her husband's coming back...

Zhongliang goes back to Shanghai, makes relationship with Wang Lizhen's cousin He Wenyan as well... Su Fen goes into He Wenyan's family to work as a servant for a living... One day at the evening party, Su Fen recognizes Zhongliang, when she tells about the truth, all people get surprised... Su Fen receives letter from Zhongmin, who's got married with Wan Hua, and also wishes his brother and sister in-law happy life... At the moment, Su Fen tells her mother in-law about the truth, she finds her son, abuses him face to face, but Zhongliang doesn't wanna change, Su Fen is hopeless, jumps into the river and dies...