Tian Han
The film is adapted from a play of the same title written by the noted leftist playwright Tian Han, who also wrote the 1932 film "Three Modern Women". Tian Han and Chen Liting co-wrote the screenplay. The film tells the story of three women in wartime Shanghai under Japanese occupation: an uneducated factory worker, an intellectual resistance activist, and a bourgeois new woman. In many ways it can be seen as a sequel to Cai Chusheng's 1935 film "New Women". Produced by the left-wing Kunlun Film Company, the film has a strong anti-Kuomintang government undertone.