Girls from Shanghai

People come to Shanghai because they want to escape from something or because they have something to hide. Bright, lively Shanghai, 1937. Chinese sisters Pearl and Mei enthusiastically attend social parties, flirt, and pose for fashionable artists. However, the glamorous life of the girls does not last long: their father falls into a financial trap with the local mafia. To survive, he sells his daughters as wives to the sons of a wealthy Chinese man living in America, but the onset of the Sino-Japanese war disrupts all plans. Hunger, bombings, universal chaos. Harsh trials befall both sisters. Moreover, Pearl and Mei become keepers of a secret that cannot be entrusted to anyone in the world.