该剧根据芥川龙之介的《上海游记》改编。影片讲述100多年前，作为大阪每日新闻记者的芥川龙之介来到上海的所见所闻。

A person's life is destined to be shorter than that of a city. Having spent her whole life in Shanghai, Qiyao has her moments of prosperity and her fair share of loneliness. She finally fades and disappears but Shanghai remains a metropolitan city. Shanghai in the 1930s is glamorous and seductive.

屋顶上放飞的鸽子，
其实放的都是闺阁的心，
飞得高高的，
看那花窗帘的窗，
别时容易见时难的样子，
还是高处不胜寒的样子。