The ballad of Yaya / Omont, Jean-Marie

Yaya and an ill Tuduo are on the run with Chan, trying to reach Yaya's parents in Hong Kong. Chased by Zhu, pirates, and soldiers, they must rely on each other to survive. As Tuduo tries to recover, a betrayal separates all three of them from each other.

In war-torn Shanghai in 1937, young Yaya and Tuduo escape the gangster Zhu and try to make it to her parents in Hong Kong but they become stranded on a dangerous island. They meet a new friend, Chan, and try to escape.