Alan Wong (Andy Lau) is a Hong Kong youth who is bent to climb up the social ladder. With the help of a foreign businessman's mistress and mixed ethnicity woman Erica (Carroll Gordon), he joins a real estate company and he knows how to grasp on to opportunities and gets into high position. Later he meets Cheung Ting Ting (Chu Hoi Ling), a Mainland Chinese girl who illegally came to Hong Kong and sees her pities her and also falls in love in her. When real estate falls into low tide, many foreign businessmen leaves Hong Kong while Alan and Erica refuses to immigrate overseas. Out of jealousy, Erica informs the police that Ting is an illegally immigrant and she suicides forever. Alan and Ting disguise as Vietnamese refugees to escape however Ting refuses to do this. Uncle Fu (Ku Feng), a watchman who always wished to die in his ancestry home loses his life while helping Ting escape. Another youth, Lee Kin Fai's (Newton Lai) girlfriend, due to her family's eagerness to immigrate, was ...
以现实香港为蓝本，描述急功近利的青年人亚伦（刘德华）的遭遇及他身边的香港人：外商情妇玛利亚——古嘉露，戆直工头亚辉——黎汉持，望做歌星女工亚红 ——寇鸿萍，封建固执看更虎伯——谷峰及非法入境女人蛇亚贞——朱海玲。一班香港小人物，为了物质生活、男女关系、移民外国等等，面对种种生活压力，求不得、放不下，难舍难离……
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