The lot of domestic slaves in 1950s Singapore. Sold at the age of four as a bondmaid, Han grows into a beautiful woman and has a romance with the young master of the house. When she gives birth to a boy, he is switched with a girl born to the master's wife.

An illicit love story in colonial Malaya between Mei Kwei, a beautiful Chinese woman and Father Martin, a French priest. When she gives birth to his child, her Chinese husband falls in a rage and she has to flee, becoming a bar girl in Singapore. But one day they will see each other again. By the author of The Bondmaid.

The lot of domestic slaves in 1950s Singapore. Sold at the age of four as a bondmaid, Han grows into a beautiful woman and has a romance with the young master of the house. When she gives birth to a boy, he is switched with a girl born to the master's wife.