Zhong Fong is a young and ambitious homicide detective in modern Shanghai. His actress wife is rehearsing the leading role in a Chinese production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Assigned to the Dim Sum killings, a grisly series of murders, the young detective is tormented by doubts about his wife's love, and constant frustration in his investigation from his superiors. Inevitably, the various events converge in a heart-wrenching climax that leaves their lives changed forever.