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This is a film about reminiscing. A famous singer, Miss Butterfly Yin, returns to the nightclub in which she used to sing at for its closing ceremony. As she is there she remembers all of the things that used to go on there and the three friends she used to sing with. They were not a singing quartet but rather three close friends that they shared their life with.

This movie looks at how things change over time. We are looking back from the present to see how these close friendships do drift apart in the end. Right at the beginning we see cracks in it when one is thinking on going to Vietnam with her boyfriend.

We watch even more closely the relationship that she forms with the saxophone player from the night club. They start off as friends but she really likes him. She is a backing singer, but when the closing singer is caught in the riots of 1967, she has to sing the closing song, and receives great applause. Thus she quickly becomes very famous.

As she moves away from the club, she still wants to remain with the sax-player but there are problems appearing. She is famous; he is not. She earns lots of money; he does not. Butterfly does not care because she simply wants him, but he feels inferior. When she is forced to pick up the bill at an expensive restaurant, he decides that he is no good for her and leaves.

It does have a very idealised ending though, yet the four never get back together. We see the changes in their life and were they went and whom they marry, but it all comes down to Butterfly Yin and her failed relationship with the sax-player. It is a movie about relationships, and how times do change. We can never expect anything to last forever, which is just the nature of this world.