John Irons is an English photojournalist who has spent over a decade in Hong Kong his friend Jim Blades often crashes in his cramped apartment. Johns unrequited love is Vivian Gong Li whom he aches for but has not the nerve to possess. Concurrent with Englands transfer of Hong Kong back to the Chinese, John discovers that he has a rare form of leukemia and has only months to live. So John, Jim, and the disfigured protohippy Jean Cheung grab a digital video camera and prowl the streets, seeking to document the real Hong Kong one last time.