Choong's title is secret agent, but in reality, his duties are limited to ferrying and running errands for Hong Kong agents when they come to Taiwan - hardly the stuff of "Mission Impossible". Until one day, when an assignment to help two Hong Kong police officers find a missing girl turns into a wild goose chase for $30 million of loot involving Hong Kong top assassins and Taiwan's most powerful triads.
A young woman is forced to marry an older man who runs a roadhouse saloon. She is constantly being raped by her husband, a drunken loutish brute. She harbors a young man wanted by the police in a murder case, and soon the fugitive and the young wife have a torrid affair as she continues to hide him from the authorities.
낮에는 일하고 밤에는 야간학교를 다니는 샤오양은 부재중인 아버지와 경찰이지만 돈을 벌기 위해선 부정한 수단도 서슴지 않는 오빠 등 버겁기만 한 가족으로부터 벗어나기 위해 만화책 『나일의 딸』의 판타지에 빠져든다. 허우 샤오시엔은 급격하게 변화하는 대만 사회를 보여주는 동시에, 유려한 촬영, 숙련된 편집, 음악 등 자신만의 확고한 스타일을 선보였다. (2015 영화의 전당 - 허우 샤오시엔 전작전)
