作为香港新浪潮另类派翁维铨 这部作品承继了上部作品 荒漠人的纪录片风格 ，“身在其中。跳脱于外”地描述了金三角的昆沙以及几代私有军阀控制的鸦片大亨，其中也着重描写了在泰国境内对于鸦片几大军阀的态度，其观赏质量还是高于荒漠人，尤其是这影片本身的主题就比较符合猎奇心理者的口味。
從50年代講到80年代的金三角的一些勢力變動，內容有撣族革命軍，為何罌粟成為農民主要作物，為何政府禁毒不力，雇傭軍狀態，毒梟以毒養軍、試圖與美國做交易、互相劫掠商品等。這是個有代表性的老紀錄片，想瞭解當時當地的推薦一看。張蘇泉是最主要的出場人物。

Three lazybones friends manufacture a firebomb and place it in a cinema. Pearl, a sadistic young girl, has observed the scene, follows the bombers and starts to manipulate them. The four criminals plan more and more daring acts.

A tangled murder mystery unfolds amid a complex love triangle. As conflicting witness accounts emerge, the truth about the victim and key suspects is revealed, leading investigators down a dark and twisty path where nothing is as it seems.

Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane, who outsiders believe is dead. Dr. Génessier, along with accomplice and laboratory assistant Louise, kidnaps young women and brings them to the Génessier mansion. After rendering his victims unconscious, Dr. Génessier removes their faces and attempts to graft them on to Christiane's.