Successful psychologist Wu Lan begins reading old journals to find the reasons behind her father's suicide, and discovers the story of young Lee Ah Choi, sold into prostitution, and her affair with runaway Chow Chat Mui, while her mother Mahmee comes to terms with the death of her husband and the loss of her daughter to a different culture, in a novel that interconnects the past and present lives of four extraordinary women. 25,000 first printing.