Plot SynopsisThe film opens to a man and women making passionate love, reflected in a ceiling mirror.Plot SynopsisBefore and during the title credits, an evocative opening shows a single soaring, circling hawk, free from restraints.They exhibited early signs of squabbling - especially young, troubled, and disobedient Edmund, jealous of his more perfect older siblings [during the air raid, he disobeyed and risked lives to save a picture of his father, who was away at war].He found a whittled design carved into the tree""s bark, later revealed to be a lucky sign in gambling, and used on a Mah Jongg game piece - it was interpreted as "Red Dragon.