Alan Wong (Andy Lau) is a Hong Kong youth who is bent to climb up the social ladder.

With the help of a foreign businessman's mistress and mixed ethnicity woman Erica (Carroll Gordon), he joins a real estate company and he knows how to grasp on to opportunities and gets into high position.

When real estate falls into low tide, many foreign businessmen leaves Hong Kong while Alan and Erica refuses to immigrate overseas.

Out of jealousy, Erica informs the police that Ting is an illegally immigrant and she suicides forever.

Uncle Fu (Ku Feng), a watchman who always wished to die in his ancestry home loses his life while helping Ting escape.