One day the poor mute uncle went to collect broken bottles and found an abandoned baby. It was a girl. On the girl, there is a letter, the letter reads: "Her name is Amei, I hope that the good people can raise her adult, good people have a safe life". The mute uncle he was all smiles and happily carried her home. When he got home, the mute uncle quarreled with his wife because she could not bear the thought of having to support another person in a family that was already in dire straits. The next day, she wrote a letter, put it on the table, and left the dumb uncle.
A single, poor, mute man raised a baby who was not yet a year old. He was busy every day, but he was happy to see her grow up little by little. When his daughter was a week old, she finally spoke up and called out for her father, which thrilled the mute uncle and turned his hard work into joy on his face.
A few years passed, one day, the mute uncle's neighbor caught a puppy, and discussed with the mute uncle, ready to kill and eat meat, just to beat the puppy half to death, while they were talking, the puppy ran to the homework of the body of the Ami, Ami saw the injured puppy, and felt very poor, so he asked the mute uncle to leave the puppy to keep it up, and named it Lai Fu.
What remains unchanged is that the mute uncle is still loving and kind, the family is still not rich, and the walls are still filled with bottles of wine. He raised Mei with the little money he earned every day.
Time passes day by day, and time flies, and the old man's temples have become as frosty as ever. Amei also grew up and became a beautiful, well-behaved, filial, cheerful, and elegant girl. Uncle Mute finally grew old. He was wrinkled, gray-haired, thin and old. The puppy that saved his life has also become a powerful wolf dog.
Ami loved to sing and had a good voice. She later met a young man who was handsome and talented. He was just an unknown songwriter, but he had no talent. They were like-minded and in love with each other, and often got together, talking about music and singing together.
Ami got better and better. Later, she finally became famous. From poor and simple, she became bright and dazzling. But she was so busy that she had no time to go home, no time to accompany her dumb uncle, no time to be with the youth. Ami and the youth even had quarrels. They grew farther and farther apart. In the end, Ah Mei became a famous songstress, while the young man was still scribbling lyrics and songs.
May became famous, but she lost her freedom. Her manager forbade her to go home, to hang out with the young man, and to meet with her mute uncle. Because a big star can't have a poor family, a deadbeat boyfriend or a disabled father. That, it said, would affect her image in the eyes of her fans.
One day, Ami held a press conference, and her dumb uncle and neighbor Ah Ming tried their best to dress up in their best attire for the press conference.
Not having seen them for a long time, the old man looked at his daughter with a trembling, excited smile, longing to see her call him Dad again. Ami's agent was on hand to keep the young girl from recognizing the broken old man. As the limelight flashes, Ami goes to embrace the old man but is stopped by her agent. The scene is a riot as Mute Uncle's neighbor, Ah Ming, starts screaming at the young girl why she won't recognize her dad. The mute uncle he was afraid of affecting his daughter's future and pushed his neighbor to leave.
The dilapidated home became silent all of a sudden, and without the girl's laughter, there was only a boundless void. The mute uncle's forlorn figure, and the rifles that had been raised for years, similarly lowered their heads, as if they knew their owner's heartache.
One day, while he was taking a walk, a motorcycle came speeding by, and he didn't pay any attention to the sound of the motor because he was thinking about his daughter all the time. Lai Fu made a dash for the mute uncle's back and pushed his master to the side of the road, while he himself was hit by the motorcycle, rolled over, crushed from the stomach, and flipped over, lying on the side of the road, his belly heaving and covered with blood.
To this day I still wonder if that shot was real, and if a motorcycle was really allowed to run over that dog's belly when it was filmed. That shot was so real, so real that it grips me.
The mute uncle took Raffles home. The vet shook his head, meaning it was hopeless.
Lai Fu lay on the table, covered in blood, his body breathing heavily, his eyes looking at his master in pain and anguish. Mute uncle old tears. It is always going to die, rather than letting it endure the agony of pain, it is better to let it leave in pain. Mute uncle painfully raised a stick, hesitation, and then ruthlessly towards the head of Lai Fu smashed ......, with the mute uncle rely on the only life of Lai Fu also left this world, so that the mute uncle Situation even more bleak.
On the one hand, it is the coldness of the falling curtain; on the other hand, it is the clamor of the stage.
On the one hand, there is the bleakness of the end of the song; on the other hand, there is the warmth of the opening of a good show.
On the one hand, the sadness of loss; on the other, the joy of success.
Amei has finally become a popular singer in Taiwan, and she has instructed her manager to bring 200,000 dollars (200,000 dollars in the 70's should be equal to a lot of money now) to Uncle Mute in the hope that Uncle Mute can buy a new house and live more comfortably than he did before. May was not cold-blooded, but she was also struggling and conflicted in her helplessness. After that, father and daughter never saw each other again. Ah Mei's success blocked their contact. So much so that Ami knew nothing about her old father's illness.
Ami is going to have a concert. The youth wrote a song for Ami in order to wake her up, the title of the song is "Wine Dry and Sell Nothing". The youth delivered the song to her before the concert. May read the lyrics and wept bitterly. She kept learning the song, and all the scenes of her father's hard work in raising her came to her like a tidal wave.
The concert began, and when Mei finished the first song, her uncle's neighbor, A-Man's wife, came and told Mei that her uncle was having a heart attack and was dying, and she immediately rushed to the hospital.
May rushed to the hospital and finally saw her father, May called out to him, "Dad, Dad, Dad," but at that moment, the mute uncle was already dying.