A young man stands in front of a mirror. The night belongs to him. Every evening, he appraises his appearance, attired in a new shirt, leaves his apartment and waits in a poorly lit alleyway for his johns. One night he meets a female prostitute of his age who’s new in this part of town.
A Communist Party functionary, Wang, finds himself drawn back his to one-time boyfriend, Daniel, an American teacher at a university in China. Wang’s plan unravels when his fiancée, Ting, the university’s propagandist, discovers his secret.
