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
Yip Kim-Fay
Alex Man Chi-Leung
Wong Hak-Keung
Cecilia Yip Tung
Ha Yuk-Nam
Ku Feng
Shiu
Sek Kin
Ha Chung-Sang
Paul Chun Pui
Sergeant Wing
Wu Ma
Chairman Liu
Stuart Yung Sai-Kit
General Kanezawa
Angela Yu Chien
Fei's Aunt
Hon Yee-Sang
Fei's Uncle
Billy Lau Nam-Kwong
Foreman
Chu Tau
Liu's Man
Chow Gam-Kong
Liu's Man
Paco Yick Tin-Hung
Wing's Thug
Lam Chi-Tai
Sang's Worker
