Make up

Taiwan, the present day. Wu Minxiu is a mortuary beautician, preparing bodies to look their best for funerals. One day the body of a woman who has suicided with sleeping pills is brought in, and Wu Minxiu recognises her as Chen Ting (Sui Tang), her music teacher at senior high school in Taizhong, with whom she had a secret love affair at the age of 17. Chen Ting’s husband, psychologist Nie Chengfu, asks Wu Minxiu if they can meet so she can tell him something about his wife’s past, of which he knows nothing. Wu Minxiu takes him to the old high school. Meanwhile, Nie Chengfu is being followed by police detective Guo Yongming , who suspects Nie Chengfu may have murdered his wife; Guo Yongming has also seduced Nie Chengfu’s secretary Tina to find out more information about him. Guo Yongming tells Wu Minxiu that Zhou, the coroner on the case, was an old army friend of Nie Chengfu and so could have faked his report. He asks her to spend more time with Nie Chengfu to find out the truth.