In a wealthy and isolated desert community, a sound expert is targeted as the prime suspect of a series of brutal murders of local suburban housewives who were attacked and mutilated in their homes. As he desperately tries to prove his innocence, his wife starts to uncover startling truths...

実験中に助手を事故死させてしまったレーザー研究者ワイズは、ある会社に雇われた。ところがその研究が暗殺目的だと知って……。レーザー光線による暗殺をめぐって展開するアクション・コメディ。「グレートウォール」とは打って変わったタッチを見せるＰ・ワン監督作品。音楽は坂本龍一。

Two cabbies search San Francisco's Chinatown for a mysterious character who has disappeared with their $4000. Their quest leads them on a humorous, if mundane, journey which illuminates the many problems experienced by Chinese-Americans trying to assimilate into contemporary American society.