A "Chinese noir full of sublimated homoeroticism" . The story of three brothers raising a little girl they found as a baby. These sworn brothers are not related by blood, but by a long-standing acquaintance and a serious crime they committed seven years ago. The movie features a homosexual love scene that was handled in a relatively straightforward manner.

The film tells about a struggle of love and revenge. The story begins decades ago, in the campus filled with poetic youth. Nanjing, Tokyo, Las Vegas, across three different cities the shades of coldness, collision and emptiness change in turns, reflecting the protagonists’ human struggles under different life situations and emotional states.

A murder case reveals unknown secrets of the killer and the victim.