民初时代国家动荡不安，军阀割据导致民不聊生。曹云(林青霞饰)是大军阀曹将军的女儿，也是一个爱国者。但是不愿见到父亲帮助袁世凯以国家的名义向外国银行借贷巨款，让国家的财务更雪上加霜，于是偷偷与革命人士联络。但是一边是国家，一边是父亲也让曹云不知如何取舍而陷入内心的挣扎。白妞(叶倩文饰)从小在戏班春和班长大，被戏班主的父亲（午马饰）当作丫环使，痴迷唱戏的她一直希望登台表演，却没有机会；湘红(钟楚红饰)是一位贪财的歌妓，趁某军阀逃跑时偷走其家中一大箱珠宝，却误打误撞让珠宝运进了春和班里。这三位在姻缘巧合下结识，透过这三位主角的生命交错，共同谱出一段爱国传奇 Early times national unrest, warlordism leads to failure. Cao Yun (brigitte Lin) is big warlord general cao's daughter, also is a patriot. But I don't want to see his father helped yuan shikai in the name of the country to foreign Banks' lending money, let the country's financial woes, more then secretly to contact people in the revolution. But is the country side, the side is father also let I don't know how to choose Cao Yun into inner struggle. Bai Niu (Sally) grew up in the spring and the monitor troupe, is sin the main father (horse) as the maid makes use of obsession with her have been hoping to perform on stage since1960 and has no chance; Hunan red (cherie chung) is a geisha, greedy for money stolen while a warlord fled their home in a big box jewelry, but let jewelry ? mistake