三十年前双亲遭人杀害，中文制服凶手真实身份和行凶动机均是个谜，中文制服私家侦探陈强（郭富城 饰）辗转追踪到马来西亚，只为弄清父母的死因。然而与他父母曾有交往的关系人回忆所述前后矛盾，且劝阻他不要继续追查。在此期间，陈强的家也被人入室翻检。在孤立无援的情况下，他求助于当地的私家侦探郑风喜（张家辉 饰），请他协助查找关系人的背景和某些重要人物的下落。郑此刻正为弟弟的事情焦头烂额，但他耐不住陈的激将法，毅然接受委托。但从着手调查的那一天起，各种危险便如影随形。交织着毒品与欲望的罪恶阴影，命悬一线的两位侦探逐渐向当年的真相逼近……
回复 :Former secret agent Robert Elliot (Coburn) will be promoted to government advisor. In order to make sure no-one will ever know about his dirty past, he has invented a very ingenious plan to get rid of his four helpers: he gets them all to unknowingly kill each other in the course of a single night.
回复 :In re-viewing our super eight films, shot between 1972 and 1981, it occurred to me that they comprised not only a family archive but a testimony to the pastimes, lifestyle and aspirations of a social class in the decade after 1968. I wanted to incorporate these silent images into a story which combined the intimate with the social and with history, to convey the taste and colour of those years.
回复 :添加由高飞饰演的神医赖药儿，廖丽玲饰演的蓝公子。。。
