The spirit of independence that runs through Wang’s films finds its most audacious expression in this newly restored and remastered tale of an urban cowboy tasked with delivering a briefcase to a mob boss. The plot takes a back seat in this movie, shot on location in Hong Kong, as the unnamed protagonist encounters an array of characters from across the social spectrum. Structured as a series of monologic portraits based on local newspaper stories, punctuated with bloody visions and featuring a circuitous foot chase and a femme fatale named Money, Life Is Cheap implicates the power relations of a boomtown in flux.
Kate MacKay

二零一一年，三月六日，香港多个团体发起反财政预算案大游行，晚上二百多人依然在皇后大道中静坐。
示威者被警方围困后，突围至德辅道中与雪厂街交界，以和平不合作形式阻塞马路示威。警方尝试冲动示威者不果后，历史性地以“非法集结”罪名拘捕一百一十三人，全部带返北角警署。
由于口供房未能负荷，示威者被安排以小组形式于警署饭堂录口供。
三个示威者与三个警察围着饭桌坐着，蒋浩正一早已经让手上的权力指引，但他却没有抬头。因为对面的警察是他哥哥。
警署的影印机坏了，他们无了期的等。漫漫长夜，除了呆坐以外，两个阵型，六个不同立场背景的人，唯有开始谈话。
故事从这里开始。

Two independent stories involving chess wizards are interwoven to satirize the politics of the Chinese Cultural Revolution as well as Taiwan's capitalist boom of the 1970's.