Like a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis, Flavia see her lesbian desires awoken when she meets a young girl. Being married and mother of a family, the time where, when in love with another girl, she stood up to the Chinese government at Tienanmen Square seems far away. Torn between her family and this emerging love, should she not finally try to live her own life and face up to her past. A marvellous and sensual history of love set against the history of Hong Kong at the turn of this century.