The LIN family from Taiwan operates a shipping business in Okinawa. To elevate their family business, the father expectantly passes on his responsibility as a captain to his second son, Hung-hai. However, Hung-hai falls for the daughter of their adversaries, Hsiu-ling, and refuses to marry the famous TV star Yoshiko, as arranged by his father. This decision strains the father-son relationship.
Meanwhile, misled by Yoshiko’s announcement of marriage on TV, Hsiu-ling returns to Taiwan desolately to avoid being found by Hung-hai. She even engages in a drunken encounter with A-chin, the eldest son of the Lins, who was born handicapped. Unresolved animosity from the parental generation not only transforms Hung-hai from a hopeful man into a gloomy alcoholic but also leads to Hsiu-ling becoming his sister-in-law due to a twist of fate.
What will be the fate of these star-crossed lovers?
台灣林家在琉球經營航運業,林父將船長大任交給次子宏海,而宏海卻愛上仇家的女兒秀玲,不願按照父親安排迎娶電視紅星芳子,使父子關係生變。另一方面,秀玲誤信芳子宣布的結婚消息而黯然回台,更在酒後亂性下,與從小殘廢的林家長子阿金發生關係。上一代的未解仇恨,讓宏海淪為喪志酒鬼。這場有緣無份的苦戀,該如何收場?