Meanwhile, his wife meets an even worse fate. She lives in a decrepit basement, where she is raped. In order to get a green card, she marries an old Chinese man who is a citizen, and eventually goes insane.
張曼玉更慘，住在破爛的地下室，被匪徒強姦，又為取得居留權嫁給老華僑，最後變成瘋婦。