Goddess

In the 1930s in Shanghai, a poor woman (Ruan Lingyu) became a prostitute in order to support her son. Unfortunately, she was spotted and taken over by a gangster. She tried several times to escape the gangster's control, but failed. When her son reached school age, she did not want to lose the chance of education for her son because of lack of money, so she continued to use her body to make money. To this end, she secretly took some money from her limited income without telling the gangster. Her identity was found out by the parents of her son's classmates, who jointly put pressure on the school to get the "child of a prostitute" out of the school to avoid ruining the academic style. The principal learned about the woman's hardships through home visits and decided to let her son continue to study in the school. However, the power of one person was too weak, and the school board still decided to expel him. In order to enable the child to continue studying, the woman went to take the hard-earned money she had saved and prepared to leave. She did not expect that her money had been stolen by gangsters and lost in gambling...