Feature film produced by Beijing Film Studio in 1980, directed by Qian Jiang and Zhao Yuan. During the period of the "Gang of Four," Chen Hao -- a veteran cadre of a certain unit of the People's Liberation Army -- is brutally persecuted. Chen's three biological sons are also tortured physically and mentally. Defending the honor of a soldier, Chen is beaten into disability. After the collapse of the "Gang of Four," Chen returns to his post. Two of his children see their love lives fall apart, due to their father's precarious status, while the third child pursues a decadent lifestyle to dangerous ends.
When her latest show closes, Pat O'Brien returns home. The stable owned by her fiancé, Dan Mallory, catches fire, and Pat helps save his prize horse, Lady Belle, who is blinded.
Yoko is upset when her father remarries and begins rebelling against her new stepmother. First, this is accomplished by promiscuity and partying but eventually her schemes take a much darker turn.
Symphonie mixes fiction with reality. The author, Romain Schneid, tells the story of his own claustrophobia in front of the camera when, when he was 12 years old, hiding as a Jew during the German occupation, he could not leave a tiny apartment.
Felipe goes home for a holiday and discovers that everything in town has changed in his absence; old don So-and-so is running around forcing people to sell their farms to him and killing them if they refuse.
