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Five short films set in Hong Kong in the year 2025.

Love intertwines at the wrong time. Sei and Ling, former masseuses in Macau, in retrospect, had the best time together. Decades after, Sei learns that her late best friend has kept a secret she never knew...

As Hong Kong's foremost filmmaker, Johnnie To himself becomes the protagonist of this painstaking documentary exploring him and his boundless world of cinema. Shot over two years and featuring interviews with many of To's superstar collaborators, this candid and straightforward film follows the famed director in and out of studios, capturing his creative process and his reflections on the ever-changing state of entertainment and society.

We enjoy the adrenaline rush given by horror films. But what if we are personally involved in the horror? Director Chun has created a ghost story based on a real case with a dancer murdered, incorporating all marketable ideas like women, supernatural forces and violence. Successfully he persuades the boss to invest in his horror, but there is one "little" requirement - in order to pass the Mainland censorship, no ghost can be presented in the ghost story. So keen to make it work, Chun compromises. While he starts to change the script, an unexpected visitor shows up and leads him to a special journey. A film depicting the bittersweet life of film workers.

Remnants is an experimental piece that explores the poetic narrative. After the world has collapsed, Sze picks up his grandfather's diary and goes through the forest accompanied by two guys who don't see eye to eye. They are holding on to their remaining memories of the adult world to try and comprehend the current situation - shot in a studio, the film creates a dream-like surreal world made up of stark black and white contrasts and minimalist compositions.

Security guard Cheung is a loving father who takes good care of his children. As his kids grow older, they have their own lives and that leaves Chueng feeling lonely. He displaces his fatherly love onto his colleague Sheung's young children instead. This innocent act, however, makes his daughter suspect that Cheung and Sheung are having an affair and a small incident risks being blown out of scale.

'...is unsuitable for any man's love.' (Xi Xi, A Woman Like Me) Sum-yin patches up wounds, masks scars and performs other beautician services that, when done well - as she always does - bring comfort to her and appreciation from grateful families. But inside she's hurting. Her job as a mortuary cosmetologist makes her self-conscious about the smell of death that seems to be seeping through and under her skin and looming over her stagnant relationship with Kwan, her oblivious boyfriend. No amount of cigarettes and perfume and cleaning will rid of it. At some point, a decision has to be made.

In this work we measure ourselves through the arc of light and shadow. We step into our shadows only to escape them in our nostalgia for the light. Swallowing clouds we pass through the deliciousness of our desires, knowing we cannot have one without the other.

Lai Ha, once a notorious mob boss, has always been strategically planning the career of her only son Yan. It is however never in Yan's intention to follow her mother's footsteps - instead he aspires to be a filmmaker. As a mob, Yan is highly incompetent, and his disappointing performance already messed up a simple drug deal. Lai Ha desperately tries to save her most sought-after son, but she ends up, along with her son, breaking into her neighbour Mr. Chan's home. They accidentally steal the head of Mrs. Chan, whom they assume was murdered by Mr. Chan. They recklessly decide to blackmail Mr. Chan, and everything goes out of control. Will Lai Ha and her beloved son survive this crisis?

In order to fulfill the expectation of her mom and her grandpa, Nam is raised as a boy since she was born. She dresses like a boy every day before going to school, gets changed back to a girl's uniform, and puts on a boy's outfit before heading home. Her hysterical mom anticipates the return of her husband, which is a dream never come true. Nam finds her only shelter at her childhood friend Yeung's house, a place where she can finally be herself, i.e. doing laundry for her underwear. But her life changes on the day when Yeung disappears.

Japanese band Aomori Hensou is the only thing that makes Mei Bo feels alive in this mundane city until she meets Lily, her new neighbour. It happens that Lily is also a huge fan of the band so they start to get along with each other like twin sisters. They wander around the city, from second-hand CD shops, to goldfish market, and other secret spots that nobody knows. Lily eventually gets tired of the excitement from Mei Bo and starts exploring the city on her own. One day Lily appears at the door of Mei Bo's home together with the news of the break up announcement of their favourite band, but there is only an empty room left in front of her.

Fung is a frontline ticket officer of a cross-border bus company. She is injured during work one day. Her company replaces her with a younger staff, and asks her to work at the back office. Around this time her contract is about to expire. Instead of renewing it, the company offers a secret proposal to her.

Contrary to its name, this Hong Kong underground band, Against the Tide, is exhausted, after several years of floating ups and downs.

High-speed car crashes, knocked-down doors and kung fu fighting are on the menu as Teams make their way to beautiful Hong Kong. The situation gets decidedly scarier for the final four.