A young filmmaker returns to China from study abroad, speaking French on the phone. He journeys from Shanghai to a remote monastery . A subtle, intimate and mysterious study in contrasts that touches on family, loss, guilt and creativity. Here is a China in transition, with confusion and alienation along with the steady beat of Buddhist chants.

李小燕生于中国，因误信大陆姑爷仔而沦为妓女更染上毒瘾，盛怒之下杀了姑爷仔逃亡至香港。小燕重操故业，于扫黄行动中被捕，香港警察张大卫与大陆贩Kingkong勾结运毒，张为自保不惜欺骗下属兼女友Rainbow，带小燕回广州接近Kingkong，协助他运毒来港以拘捕他，岂料回港时Kingkong以毒针刺晕小燕及Rainbow，两人醒来时已身处加拿大海关……

On a remote island off Hong Kong, its rich and happy inhabitants are celebrating an annual ritual by staging an operatic show. The island is not productive but its people are rich. No wonder police chief Yuan Kuei becomes suspicious. He thinks he is sitting on top of a narcotics ring. His two men are ordered to watch closely movement of the opera people. Little does the chief know that actually the islanders are living off the loot their ancestors made by raiding a government gold galleon some centuries ago. They buried much of the treasure and a dormant vampire under a pagoda......