In the beginning of the year 1997, an ex-emigre man returns to Hong Kong, his city of birth and looks for a job. Unable to find one, he offers his services as an immigration consultant, and meets many people, including a lady with no past. A street Cleaner finds life with his pregnant wife and streets full of rubbish suffocating, and seeks new hope from the immigration consultant ... ...

The high school dropout Autumn Moon lives in the Hong Kong housing projects with his mother, whose husband ran off with a mistress from the mainland. Running loan-sharking collections for his big brother, Moon feels for a girl named Ping, also from a broken family, who suffers from a fatal kidney disease. Moon is seriously injured one day while he is hiding out at home after he freezes at point blank during the hit. When he regains consciousness a month later, not only he finds Ping has died from the disease and his buddy, Sylvester was murdered by the triad when he unknowingly disrupted a cocaine deal. With the world collapsing around him, Moon decides to take matters into his own hands ... ...