In Mainland China, Yan (Wu Chien-lien) cold-bloodedly kills a
prostitute and assumes her identity. She then goes to Hong Kong and even
gets a legal passport under her assumed name.
Soon enough, she works as a prostitute and picks up a taxi driver,
Chi-Min (Lai Yiu-Cheung), who takes her home with him and willingly
answers to every question about his private life she asks, thinking she's
really interested in him. Before she leaves Chi-Min again, she loses
a necklace - quite on purpose.
A few days later, Yan sees Chi-Min in the street and runs him over in
her car, making sure not to kill him but to break both his legs. Yet again
a few days later, she shows up at his house again, and he, wheelchairbound
but not knowing that Yan was the cause for this, opens his door for her
... and soon enough she has him taped to his wheelchair but good and has
killed his dog.
Later, she kills Chi-Min's mother as well, and the husband of the
prostitute she has killed at the beginning of the film who has grown a tad
suspicious, and she ties up Chi-Min's four-year old daughter ... but for
some reason she leaves Chi-Min alive.
Why ?
Because she is waiting for her own husband - a wanted criminal no less
- to arrive so he can assume Chi-Min's identity. Problem is, Yan's husband
has lost both his arms, so they would need Chi-Min's arms (especially his
fingers for the fingerprints) to get a passport, and the arms only remain
fresh if they are attached to someone still alive. Once Yan's husband is
here, they saw off Chi-Min's arms, bury his daughter alive and apply for a
passport without any problems.
Everything would be perfect, but then Chi Min's daughter is freed from
her premature grave thanks to heavy rain, and she's still alive to tell
the tale ... which pretty much ruins the plans of Yan and her hubby, and
for herself, Yan decides to next time not show as much passion as she did
this time towards the girl.
A mean and gory, even unsettling little thriller that is just a tad too
slick to be properly disturbing, somehow the stylish direction actually
derives the film from developing to full effect. Still, the film is quite
interesting, especially thanks to its immoral storyline.
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