17-year-old Tan-mei is secretly in love with her cousin Feng, a playboy who treats love as merely a game. Suddenly, a car accident puts an end to Feng’s irresponsible life and shatters Tan-mei’s dream of romance. Though Tan-mei’s parents force her to have electroshock therapy in the hospital, she still can’t stop feeling guilty for Feng’s death. Lonely Seventeen depicts the feelings of being lost and loneliness a teenager suffers due to academic pressure and family alienation. Director PAI Ching-jui put the emphasis on the two big stars, TANG Pao-yun and KO Chun-hsiung and made the film a box-office success.