二十世纪初,大英帝国殖民官员爱德华被派驻遥远的东方,他从仰光搭火车前往曼德勒,等待未婚妻莫莉搭船到来。孰料蒸汽船即将靠岸之际,他却丢失了勇气,跳上前往新加坡的船仓皇离去。即便如此,爱德华的懦弱之举,并未让莫莉却步,反倒上演一场你跑我追之旅,也借着横渡暹罗、西贡、马尼拉、大阪、上海、重庆、成都,在陌生的远东大陆上,展开一连串的探索与追寻。。Mandy is a mother, a writer, a nihilist. Mandy is a modern woman in a crisis. Raising a son in the midst of a female revolution, mining the pain of her parents’ separation and professionally writing about a love that no longer exists, she falls upon a troubled man, Pete, who’s searching for a sense of worth, belonging and ‘restored’ Male identity.。