Pavilion of Women

China, 1937. Madame Wu, decides on her 40th birthday to end her marriage. The decision throws her family into an uproar. However, she manages the transition as she does everything else in the big family of over sixty relatives. Alone in her own quarters, she enjoys her new freedom and reads books which she was denied in the past. When she starts learning from the missionary Brother Andre, her life is about to change...