Cheng plays a man who wants to take revenge on his wife forplaying around, but accidentally goes to far: while drunk, he hires a professional killer who won't take no for an answer. In true film noir fashion, everything he does after that only makes matters worse. Yam and Lee appear in the roles they've specialized in (psycho and cop, respectively). This movies has scenes of violence and terror that are so strong they actually border on comedy, like when Cheng clumsily bumps the head off the burned corpse of his daughter! Whoops!