On the night when his lover (Maggie Cheung) married his brother in anger, Ouyang Feng (Leslie Cheung) sadly left Bai Tuo Mountain and walked into a small town in the desert to become a killer intermediary. His friend Huang Yaoshi (Tony Leung Ka-fai), a romantic swordsman, comes to the town to have a drink with him every year. The news about Mount Bai Tuo during the drinking conversation makes him forget about the past...