As it was strictly prohibited for a couple with the same surname to get married in their hometown, Zhong Li-he and his lover Zhong Peng-mei ran away from home without their parents blessings. They soon settled down and Peng-mei knew her husband’s aspiration to be a writer, thus she supported him by doing odd jobs to sustain their living expenses... ~~ It is a biographical film about the Hakka writer Chung Li-ho.