'The Flurry of Fireworks last year') is Hong Kong independent director Fruit Chan's second feature in the "1997 trilogy", first released in 1998.

The movie details the problem faced by a group of disaffected Hong Kong ex-soldiers of the British Army, just before and after the 1997 handover by the People's Republic of China.

Ga Yin (Tony Ho Wah-Chiu), a former sergeant in the British Army, is discharged from his post following the imminent handover of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China in July 1997.

He joins his younger brother Ga Suen (Sam Lee) to work for the underworld, as a chauffeur to a Triad leader.

[2] However, Ming Pao noted that the Society had previously screened The Longest Summer in 2017 and 2021, while filmmaker Tin Kai-man also expressed confusion over the decision, explaining that copies of all Hong Kong films should be well-preserved in the Hong Kong Film Archive.