歌舞升平的大上海，河神华美的表象下有多少罪恶横行。平静的日子里，河神去酒楼买菜的韩非（释小龙 饰）意外遭遇一个带着巨额现金、身上刺青的男子。该男子与来自某巡捕房的人拔枪互射，最终后者中弹身亡，而刺青男子夺路而逃。随后赶来的探长钟朗（钟汉良 饰）和医科大学女教授于胜男（齐芳 饰）调查后发现，死者来自西捕房侦缉队，凶手则是麒麟帮手下的人。不久，西捕房探长李约翰（徐亮 饰）登门，声明要接管此案。李探长傲慢冷酷，同时指示手下三缄其口，令钟朗深感其中另有隐情。不久嫌犯阿连落网，从审讯中得知此案不仅与鸦片交易有关，西捕房内部人员似乎也与之有着千丝万缕的关系。伴随血腥阴谋，真相慢慢浮出水面……
金范龙
回复 :1970年代后期，长江某客轮。一批电影厂演员的到来，扰乱了“朝云”号客轮的平静。正在恋爱中的吴素琴（高英 饰）通过接触发现了杨英（吴海燕 饰）、张恋水（何麟 饰）之间一段鲜为人知的故事。十几年前，杨、张二人同在运河学校学习，久而久之，张对杨产生感情，欲吐又止。因为杨英心中藏着一个不为人知的密秘，那就是哥哥杨明（丁嘉元 饰）。张恋水不知内情，当见到杨明来看望妹妹时，他向杨明倾吐了对杨英的爱慕之意。但杨明的道白却大出张恋水意料之外，原来杨明与杨英并不是真正的兄妹，杨英幼年时家中遇难，是杨明的父亲（申怀琪 饰）救了年仅两岁的杨英，从此相依为命，成年后，杨英深爱上杨明。不久后，杨明在一次搬移航标灯时不幸殉难，杨英陷入悲苦之中......
何佩儿
回复 :从小因患小儿麻痹症而右手残疾的张英顶替了胡萍而成为了新一届的先进生产者。张英想了解生产下降的原因，于是走访了胡萍家。胡萍的哥哥告诉她，胡萍因为和马路工谈恋爱跟母亲闹僵，以离开家搬到厂里去住。张英借学游泳的机会接近胡萍，并再访胡萍家，对胡母谈起胡萍对母亲的思念。胡母看见自己介绍给女儿的男朋友驾驶摩托车载着儿子的女友而昏了过去，张英的男友——马路工宋力德救了她。母亲终于觉悟，有情人终成眷属，儿子胡晋也向心灵高尚的张英表达了爱慕之情。
希亚
回复 :To Elena, existence is an effort—not only does she struggle against her body affected by Parkinson’s, but her daughter has just shown up dead and only she finds the suicide hypothesis implausible. Elena is not a good victim, and doesn’t show signs of having been a selfless mother. She is vulnerable, but also overcome by rage and sorrow, and that stubbornness seems to render her invincible, against all odds. But investigating the reasons for her daughter’s death soon becomes a trip through memory, and, as we’ve known since the time of Greek tragedies, every investigation is, deep down, an investigation about oneself. Elena Knows submerges us in the physical and mental experience of its protagonist and, at the same time, invites us to ask ourselves uncomfortable questions about aging, the complexity of mother-daughter bonds and the weight of those mandates women drag the same way Elena drags her feet.
