Ah Ying is a "Miss Big North" from Wunan in Mainland China. She braved her way to Hong Kong with a short-term tourist visa. Here in Hong Kong, she does not exist. In her eyes, this city does not exist neither... During this initiatory journey to the Dollar-City, she met other three immigrants from mainland China : Quin works as a lift operator in a big Chinese restaurant. She used to work as a social dance teacher. She lost her son and one leg in a traffic accident. Ah Jian is Quin's live-in boyfriend. An outmoded villain, he works in a porno video rental shop which is facing its insolvency. Ah Chun is a lift repairer. A disciplined introvert, his only past-time is playing bad jokes in the radio phone-in program and frequenting brothels. Entrapped in those dingy brothel, cramped lift or deserted karaokes, their sentimental trajectories intertwined.

1999 Cannes Film Festival
1999 Busan International Film Festival
1999 Hong Kong International Film Festival - FIPRESCI Prize - Special Mention
1999 Stockholm Film Festival - Best Cinematography