Hou’s light first feature finds him beginning his career as a director by working in the vein of the romantic comedies so prevalent in Taiwanese cinema at the time. The musical stars two singer-actors (Kenny Bee and Feng Fei-fei) playing a pair of star-crossed lovers who meet in the countryside although Feng is already promised to a serious young man studying abroad. The fact that Bee plays a developer whose sentimental education includes learning to love nature looks forward not only to the environmental messages in The Green, Green Grass of Home but, more broadly, to the importance of landscape in Hou’s work.