Phoenix Rising — Season 1, Episode 12: Episode 12
Drama • 45 min • 1 season, 20 episodes
Episode synopsis
Because of the escape, Nga is locked up in the dark cell. During a visit to the prison, Leung has a heavy heart as he thinks of Nga. Nga hears Leung’s voice, she sings a melody and wants him to know where she is. Leung does hear she sings, he tells her he must save her. Walking out of the dark cell, Nga sees a new inmate is being abused by Wan. The new inmate is Sophie. She comes here as she worries about Nga. She is sentenced to two years in prison for helping Nga to escape. Lau Sing, the secret lover of Mayor Ngai Tung-leung, dies. Sing’s family hopes Leung will find out the truth behind Sing’s death. Leung threatens the mayor to leave Shanghai. Leung’s mother kills the mayor for fear that the matter will ruin Leung’s future. Consequently, Leung is not able to get the pardon for Nga.
About Phoenix Rising
When their parents died at birth, three sisters were sent to orphanages and were later adopted into three different homes with different backgrounds. When one of the sisters gets sent to prison for killing her stepmother, but one of the other two sisters tell officials she committed the crime to save her sister from going to jail. The youngest sister forges evidence to save them both, but gets caught and gets sent to jail, too. This television series uses women in jail as its storyline, describing the dark side of women in prison.