Lin Hsiao-yang tries to keep her family together while working as a waitress at Kentucky Fried Chicken and going to night school. With no mother and her father currently working out of town, it is up to Lin Hsiao-yang to take care of her younger siblings, who are slipping into a life of crime.
A substitute teacher from Taipei arrives in a country village to teach a class of mischievous students. He soon falls in love with nature, country life and a fellow teacher at the school.
A photographer travels with her boyfriend to a seaside village in Penghu. There she strikes up a relationship with a blind man. When they reencounter one another back in Taipei, where he is preparing to undergo an operation to restore his sight, their connection intensifies.
Taiwanese Wuxia
Primeiro filme de Hou, Menina bonita é uma comédia romântica que conta, assim como Vento gracioso e A grama verde de casa, com a presença de Kenny Bee, então astro pop de Hong Kong. Bee interpreta um topógrafo que vai ao campo a trabalho e conhece a personagem de Feng Fei-fei, uma moça que mora na cidade grande, mas que está visitando a família no interior. Os dois se apaixonam, mas têm de enfrentar a família de Feng Fei-fei, uma vez que ela havia sido prometida em casamento a outro homem.
