这是一部阐述石挥表演艺术理论与实践的专著，是著名表演艺术家、导演—石挥数十年从事话剧、电影、导演实践经验的总结。其中有演出手记、导演散记、以及对演员修养问题的论述。书中还有程之等电影演员撰写的回忆石挥的文章。我国著名戏剧家黄佐临先生为此书做了序，对石挥的表演艺术以及人品给予了高度的评价。

In pre-communism China, a widowed man falls in love with a young colleague who's the same age as his own children.

A man who becomes wealthy starts to have an affair and though his wife knows of it, she says nothing. Soon, the affair starts to have consequences and his business falls apart while the man’s sister starts to have a relationship with the brother of his wife.