Characters: Alice Leung: sixteen-year-old Chinese student who looks 12; tall girl, narrow face, pinched around the mouth, her cheeks pitted with acne scars.

A Hong Kong resident and businessman, Harvey, is drawn to a girl named Lin who lives in Shenzhen but comes from the rural province of Anhui.

After some time, he finally realizes that in order to save his marriage, he has to tell his wife he cannot handle living in Hong Kong, and risks the possibility of divorce.

As the story unfolds, it becomes clear that while racism is involved, no one party is completely innocent of wrongdoing, as the Hong Kong businessman, Wallace Ford, admits to participating in illegal activities at the behest of the company.

Throughout his stay, Marcel must endure attention because of his race, but in the closing scene feels grateful that he is "gwai lo" in Cantonese, or "ghost", and in a sense invisible.

(note that the correct here should be huckgwei) A Chinese man in Hong Kong is raising his two daughters, twelve and sixteen, after the death of their mother six years before.

The distance between them causes him to reflect on his early days in New York City, when he worked as a deliveryman for a Chinese restaurant for very little money while studying at Columbia University on a scholarship.

The young deliveryman ended up letting the mugger face his own danger rather than assisting him, and wonders about the morality of his decision.