New York City journalist Verdi Leoni discovers that death looms near for the scavenger who rescued her from a garbage dump when she was a baby. So Verdi quits her job at the newspaper and returns to her native China to take care of the ailing woman. But there is someone else in Shanghai who needs Verdi even more - someone who is not so easy to love. It takes all the strength Verdi can muster to care for the caustic old man, who holds the power --...