Three sisters, one murder, zero exits — this prison drama doesn't flinch.
Season 1 • Episode 20
LatestWu is staying in the church’s dormitory where the living environment is poor. Wu visits Nga at her home and wants to have her son back. Nga chases after Wu. Wu scolds Nga as she thinks Nga deliberately hurts her feeling in front of her son. Later, Nga arranges a gathering for Wu with her son. Wu thanks Nga for doing this for her, and she says she must become good. On the day Wu meets her son, the child is kidnapped by a bad guy. Wu gets herself injured when she is making her best effort to protect his son. Hoi is touched to see Wu’s love to their son. Sophie discovers the kidnapping is actually made up by Wu. So, she goes to the hospital to question Wu. Wu hopes Sophie can forgive her and give her one more chance. Unwillingly, Sophie promises. Sophie is depressed as Hak is going to get marry in England. Nga talks to Sophie and says that Sophie should let Hak know if she really loves him.… ...
When their parents died at birth, three sisters were sent to orphanages and were later adopted into three different homes with different backgrounds. When one of the sisters gets sent to prison for killing her stepmother, but one of the other two sisters tell officials she committed the crime to save her sister from going to jail. The youngest sister forges evidence to save them both, but gets caught and gets sent to jail, too. This television series uses women in jail as its storyline, describing the dark side of women in prison.
Acting
Leila Tong's youngest sister transformation from naive to schemer.
Writing
Ruthless symmetry: each sister destroys herself to save another.
Creator
Terry Tong Gei-Ming
Louisa So Yuk-Wah
Yim Pui-Woo / Yeung Choi-Yiu
Kristal Tin Yui-Nei
Kong Lai-Nga / Yeung Choi-Yue
Leila Tong
So Fei / Yeung Choi-Lam
Sunny Chan Kam-Hung
Yin Leung
Jack Wu
Ma Hak
Nancy Wu
Yip Chi-Shan
Ben Wong
Cheung Chi-Hoi
Mannor Chan Man-Na
Eileen Yeow
Chan Wing-Chun
Law Lok-Lam
Kwok Tak-San
Lily Li
Leung Bo-Ching
Suen Kwai-Hing
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
TVB's 2000s 'women in prison' subgenre peaked here, influenced by 1980s Hong Kong women-behind-bars exploitation films but played straight as social melodrama.
Director Terry Tong Gei-Ming reportedly cast real former inmates as extras; Louisa So prepared by visiting maximum-security facilities in mainland China.
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