Secrets of 1979 (2021)

7.8/10 • 86 min • TV Movie Drama

Overview

In the summer of 1979, during Taiwan’s martial law period, Bing-Kuan asks her college friend Shu-Lan to help out on her family’s banana plantation. As time goes by, the two girls secretly develop a romantic relationship, and decide to volunteer at the Formosa Magazine in order to promote democratic freedom of expression. Yet their youthful romance is threatened as the Kuomintang regime seeks to suppress dissident voices.

Cast

Chen Yuu

Daphne Low

Sean Sun

Yu-Ting Hsu

Akio Chen

Weng Jia-wei

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