On Christmas Eve 1999, famous lawyer Lee Ke Chun (Chew Chor Meng) hosts a Christmas party for the societal elite at his bungalow, under the watchful eye of a team of CID officers led by Lau Ah Chow (Tay Ping Hui), Lee's former army buddy (and now his bitter rival in love).
However, the event is disrupted by the appearance of their comrade Tan Guan Kun (Terence Cao), a fugitive wanted by the authorities for murder, who holds Lee at gunpoint in an act of revenge for the latter's past deeds.
Lee is the most educated of the trio and aspires to be a lawyer, Lau has a history of confinement in a boy's home due to acts of theft, while Tan is a happy-go-lucky youth obsessed with get-rich-quick schemes.
After completing National Service, Lee pursues a career as a lawyer and resorts to ruthless means to cement himself among the elites in the field, in the process exploiting and eventually murdering Tan's love interest Lu Xiuwen (Yvonne Lim), as well as forcefully taking to wife Choo Yu Hang (Wong Li-lin), daughter of top lawyer Steven Choo (Huang Wenyong) and girlfriend of Lau.
Tan's attempt to create a windfall results in his falling into bad company in the Thai underworld, and he becomes a lethal assassin and drug trafficker.