香港世道不景气，饭店普通人的日子不好过，饭店连黑白两道的人也日陷窘境。打拼多年的黑道小人物三脚豹（刘青云 饰）诚实忠义，但在利益至上的年代他的忠义既珍贵又可笑。好不容易帮助当年的好兄弟凸眼龙（姜皓文 饰）经营黑市期指，偏偏当天就赶上了大股灾，凸眼龙破产在即。二人合计，决定从放债 人锺原（卢海鹏 饰）的手中骗抢一千万现金。谁知出手前却遭遇另一组劫匪，锺原更因此陈尸车中。银行职员特丽莎•陈是锺原的客服与投资顾问，面对突然留在自己手中的巨款，长久以来倍感压抑的她面临一次重大的选择。受命调查锺原遇害案的警队督察张正方（任贤齐 饰）刚直不阿，老父患绝症、妻子私下挪用存款。在巨大的现实压力面前，三个身处不同社会阶层的人经历着前所未有的波澜……
回复 :ynopsis from Time Out Film Guide: Between the seemingly idyllic opening and closing scenes depicting a rural community, first at church, then at the village festival, Fleischmann attacks that community's prejudices and ignorance without remorse. His very precisely observed portrait of Bavarian life begins with little more than a display of the villagers' constant ribbing, bawdy humour, continuous gossip, and more than a hint of their slow-wittedness. With the return of a young man, their idle malice and childish clowning, always on the edge of unpleasantness, receive some focus: quite without foundation, the lad is victimised as a homosexual. The crippling conformity of their ingrained conservatism leads the villagers to reject anything 'different': a young widow is ostracised, more for her crippled lover and idiot son than her morals; a teacher is frozen out because she's educated; the casual destruction of the young 'homosexual' is given no more thought than the cutting up of a pig. Not Germany in the '30s but the '70s; nevertheless the political parallels are clear. An impressive film.
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