Shu-Chuan Huang

Ah-Zhou, who is about to be honorably discharged from the military service, has a surreal dream. In the dream he sees the dead body of Shing-Shing Chen, a classmate in elementary school from years back. Is this dream implying that Shing-Shing Chen might have died? Soon afterwards, Ah-Zhou gets an unexpected five-day vacation and decides to look for Shing-Shing Chen. Nevertheless, he quickly learns that the special vacation is for him and another soon-to-be-discharged solider, Xiao-Gui, to go after a deserter, Kuen-He, who ran away with weapons two days ago. Both of them are worried about this assignment because they, the old birds, used to pick on Kuen-He, a spring chicken. And Kuen-He is now a deserter, armed and dangerous.

大陸からの移住組の一家がこうむる圧力は、さらに露骨なものとなって少年スーを巻き込んでいく。彼の恋した少女ミンは、彼らのボスの情婦という噂がある。そのボスは、敵グループのボスと一騎討ちの最中、車にはねられて死んでしまう。やがてスーはミンとの交際を注意され、怒って中学を退学する。だがミンは、スーの親友で軍人の息子マーと付き合いはじめていた……。