

Years later, a woman narrates her personal story of the Japanese takeover of Hong Kong in 1941. She's Nam, young, attractive, daughter of a wealthy rice merchant, and prey to painful, disabling seizures. Her boyhood friend is Coolie Keung, whose family used to have wealth; he's now impoverished, a tough kid, a leader, in love with her. Into the mix steps Fay, cool and resourceful, an actor from the north, intent on getting to Gold Mountain in the US or Australia. They form a threesome, but the day they are to leave Hong Kong, the invasion stops them. Fay must rescue Keung from collaborators, Nam falls in love with Fay, and danger awaits their next attempt to escape.

Chow Yun-Fat

Alex Man Chi-Leung

Cecilia Yip Tung

Ku Feng

Shih Kien

Paul Chun Pui

Wu Ma

Stuart Yung Sai-Kit

Angela Yu Chien

Hon Yee-Sang

Billy Lau Nam-Kwong

Chu Tau

Chow Gam-Kong

Paco Yick Tin-Hung

Lam Chi-Tai

Lung Ying

Wang Han-Chen

Leong Po-Chih

Fong Yue

John Chan Koon-Chung

Chun Kwai-Bo

Stephen Chan Yung

Ding Yuen-Kin

Lee Chi-Kit

Lam Foo-Wai

Pang Yun-Cheung

Chin Ka-Lok