Tasman Chang Shiu-Ting

Lam Yiu Kwok, a Hong Kong secondary school teacher is facing a mid-life crisis. While he has only his pride and Chinese poetry to fall back on, his peers are successful businessmen and professionals who flaunt their extravagant lifestyles at reunion dinners. After many years, Lam is still living in a modest apartment with his wife, Man Ching and two teenage sons. However financial stagnancy is not his only problem. An old flame of Man Ching (who was the couple's former schoolteacher) returns to Hong Kong and uncovers old wounds. Man Ching feels obliged to help her ex-lover. Meanwhile, Yiu Kwok faces another dilemma: Choy Lam, a precocious student, has a crush on him and the 'forbidden fruit' looks more and more tempting in the light of his wife's 'infidelity'. Will he succumb to young charms and let history repeat itself?

1920年代の上海で当時最大を誇ったギャング団を壊滅し“殺人王”と呼ばれた男、ピン。そして人々の間で伝説として語り継がれていった10年後－－。彼は“和平飯店”と名付けられた一軒のホテルで静かに暮らしていた。そんなある日、彼のもとにマンと名乗る一人の女性が助けを求めて逃げ込んできた。彼はとりあえず彼女を匿うことにするが、数日後、馬賊を引き連れたギャングのボス、ムンがホテルの前に現れる……。