Dee (Carol Cheng) is a disheveled, hot-headed HK cop; Apple Yu (May Lo) is an urbane, designer-dressed inspector from the ICAC. Now, they're partners trying to bring down (still another) triad crime ring. To intimidate Apple, Dee dresses like a model, but finds that her partner has taken on a street-punk guise to intimidate her. They locate a priest who's a triad defector; and while Dee takes a nun's guise, her partner tries to pull off being a junkie in withdrawal.
A tragic love story set against the always volatile and oftenviolent backdrop of Shanghai during the Japanese occupation and at the opening of the Pacific Theater of the Second World War. A nightclub singer becomes involved with both a member of the Chinese resistance and an officer of the Japanese army.
А-Фэй — имя главного героя, который кажется благополучным человеком: его любят женщины, он не нуждается в деньгах. Но тайна происхождения, непроясненность прошлого, мешает ему укорениться в настоящем: для человека старой китайской культуры разрыв в цепи поколений — не частная неурядица, а корневая беда.
Герой строит новую систему координат: уклоняйся от обязательств, остерегайся привязанностей, избегай закрепощающих чувств…
