Dicey Business

In 1996 in the Philippines, Hong Konger CHAI FOON-CHONG is leading a down and out life. He meets CHOW FOOK-WING, who is also from Hong Kong and who is also alone here, by chance. The kindhearted WING puts him up in his place. He even pays off CHONG’s gambling debts from time to time, hoping that he can one day regain his confidence. Six years have passed, but CHONG has not really changed. He gambles away ten thousand US dollars of WING’s. Just as CHONG wants to run away from WING’s questioning, he finds that someone has taken WING away. CHONG bumps into KIU CHING-CHO, his opponent in the International Poker Tournament ten years ago, when he is looking for WING. To his surprise, the ten thousand dollars actually belong to CHO. To save WING, CHONG gives his passport to CHO, who promises to give it back to him when his debt is cleared. It turns out that it is a ploy of WING and CHO to help CHONG pull himself together……

WING asks CHONG to return to Hong Kong to see his parents. CHO knows that CHONG is ashamed to see his parents because he had lost his younger brother twenty years ago. CHO comes up with the idea of betting on WAN with CHONG to motivate him to go back to Hong Kong. Luck has been on WAN’s side and she has won a lot of money. WING and MEI encourage her to go back to Hong Kong. CHO asks MEI to take WAN to the airport. WAN thinks CHO is a good boss, not knowing that he is actually using her to bet with CHONG. While CHO is sending WAN away, CHONG uses a trick to make WAN return to the casino. A man with the name of YUNG CHI-WAI has won a huge sum. Even CHONG fails to affect him with his bad luck. WAI is found cheating. CHONG finds a few men suspicious. He follows them but is attacked. He faints. WAN has lost all her money. She sells her mobile phone so that she will have the money to buy a ticket to go back to Hong Kong……