Hong Kong, the present day. Former soldier Szema Nim-cho (Daniel Wu) has stock-market trader Law Man-sang (Lau Ching-wan), head of Man Sang Securities, under electronic surveillance. Followed one day by Szema, Law at first manages to throw him off but is then hospitalised in a car crash. When a military bug is found in the wreckage of Law's car, Ho Chi-keung (Louis Koo), a senior officer in the Security Bureau's Anti-Terrorist Unit, is called in to investigate. He offers Law a deal: to help him find Szema in exchange for turning a blind eye to Law's share-trading activities. Law reluctantly agrees, and allows his office to be put under electronic surveillance. Ho almost catches Szema in a street chase, but Szema manages to escape back to the nursing home where he lives with his widowed mother (Chiao Chiao), who's suffereing from Alzheimer's. Before she completely loses her memory, Szema's mother wants her son to track down Wong Sai-tung (Kenneth Tsang), whom she blames for the death of her husband, share trader Szema Cheung (Woo Fung), and the general ruination of her family. Wong is head of a secret cabal of stock-market players, known as the Landlord Club, that credited itself with saving Hong Kong's economy from western manipulation after the stock-market crisis of 1973 but later became rich and arrogant itself, and has become involved in funding Middle East and Chechen groups. Law, the youngest member of club, to which he was introduced by Szema Cheung, tells his colleagues he's under surveillance by the anti-terrorist authorities, which causes consternation in their ranks. Meanwhile, Szema continues his elaborate plan to lure Wong back from abroad and entrap him.
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