fig. (of sb's life) feeble

At the beginning of the new century, Jingnan, a newspaper intern, is given the task of interviewing artists, and his veteran colleagues leave him with the most difficult assignment of all. He is to interview Bai Lu, a popular socialite and movie star in Shanghai, who has just been dumped by her lover, become a laughing stock, attempted suicide by pills, withdrawn from people's view, and lives alone in an old European-style garden where she has not seen the light of day for many years. At the same time, her lover, Han Qiu, has disappeared and is suspected to be the reason for her...