Synopsis
1941. Since the Japanese occupation, China had become a wartime intelligence battlefield for the Allies and the Axis Powers. Iconic actress Jean Yu (Gong Li) returned to Shanghai, ostensibly to appear in the play "Saturday Fiction" directed by her former lover. But what was her true aim? To free her ex-husband? To gather intelligence for the Allied Forces? To work for her adoptive father? Or to escape from war with her lover? As she embarked on her mission and as everything spiralled out of control, Jean Yu started to question whether to reveal what she had learnt about the imminent Pearl Harbor attack...