年老的米商女儿忆述起她在年轻时遭遇的一段经历,这段经历正处在香港沦陷前后,它是从一个最特别的黎明开始的。自幼在戏班中长大的周郁郁不得志,想偷渡去美国却不幸失败。在一场抢粮暴动中他结识了万。万与米商的女儿从小青梅竹马,但米商欲将女儿嫁给富家子弟。为逃婚,米商女儿与周、万3人决定偷渡去美国,却又因战争爆发而失败。香港沦陷当晚,米商女儿遭巡警强奸,万将巡警摔死,米商终于准许万娶其女儿。日军接管香港,周竟当上了“日军太保”,意图藉此身份离开香港。经过一番波折,3人登上了难民船,却在中途遇上日军巡逻艇,使他们的行踪暴露了,周牺牲自己,让两人逃走。 Years later, a woman narrates her personal story of the Japanese takeover of Hong Kong in 1941. She's Nam, young, attractive, daughter of a wealthy rice merchant, and prey to painful, disabling seizures. Her boyhood friend is Coolie Keung, whose family used to have wealth; he's now impoverished, a tough kid, a leader, in love with her. Into the mix steps Fay, cool and resourceful, an actor from the north, intent on getting to Gold Mountain in the US or Australia. They form a threesome, but the day they are to leave Hong Kong, the invasion stops them. Fay must rescue Keung from collaborators, Nam falls in love with Fay, and danger awaits their next attempt to escape. |