the main character, vicky, portrayed by actress shu qi, narrates from 2011 about her life 10 years earlier. she describes her youth and story of her changing life at the beginning of the new millennium. she works as a hostess in a trendy bar. vicky is torn between two men, hao-hao and jack, and her journeys display the parallel journey of the psyche and how one girl deals with her fleeting youth.