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At a wedding reception in a hotel, Ching (Angelica Lee)suddenly stumbles
over a woman who had one of her kidneys removed by an organ snatcher in one of
the rooms. When she watches the surveillance tapes at the police station, she
soon finds a woman she thinks is suspicious, Ling (Karena Lam). Ling, a poor
medical student who cares only for her old hospitalized mother it seems,
is promptly arreated, but at the lineup it turns out that all may not be as it
seems as Ling did actually have an affair with Ching's lover Wai (Andy Hui),
& Ching might only want to get back at her - Ling is of course promptly
released.
From here on, Ching starts to get threatening phonecalls, supposedly from
Ling, & even as she tries to turn the tables & tries to spy on Ling, it
is to little avail, since she only sees what she would rather not have seen -
Ching together with Wai in his office.
Finally Ching is knocked out ... by the actual organ snatcher, not Ling, but
as he wants to take her kidneys, she tells him she has bad kidneys - because of
which she can neither control her bladder nor have sex. Out of nowhere, Ling
appears & stops the organ snatcher - even if that means breaking her own
arm in the process.
Impressed by Ling's courage despite everything, Ling wants to make up with
her, & the 2 soon become close friends ... until the 2 of them have dinner
together with Wai, & Wai, enticed by this, starts his affair with Ling
anew. Ling now starts avoiding Ching, but Ching is not easy to shake off, &
she soon finds Ling again at her university, forgives her after she confesses
her affair & even invites her to stay at her appartment ... & that's
when the organsnatcher calls, offering Ching, his erstwhile almost victim, the
healthy kidney she would need to lead a normal life.
Ching persuades Ling to accompany her to the handover (a public toilet), but
from here on everything goes wrong, as the police shows up & the
organsnatcher takes Ling hostage & locks himself into a toilet stall with
her ... where she can kill him, but she has to find out later at the police
station that it was Ching herself who called the police ... and that her mother
has just died. This proves too much for Ling to take, as the organsnatcher
was actually her oldest friend and accomplice in organstealing (she was
actually the one who removed the kidneys, he merely provided the victims),
& now Ching has taken him from her. She is now really out for revenge,
& not even Ching wielding an axe can stop her, so soon Ching ends up in a
bathtub filled with icecubes (for kidney preservation), then she faints ...
only to wake up in hospital, having gotten (!!!) a klidney from Ling, who
killed herself to give her kidney to Ching, & now finally she has a
normally working kidney, which even her body accepts ... only her mind doesn't.
It seems Ling has her revenge after all. Deliberately slow moving
thriller with an intelligent storyline, that does not reduce its characters to
good vs bad clichés, instead tries to paint a multilayered picture, but
sometimes it tries to be too clever for its own good, so not all the surprise
plottwists come as unexpected as they are supposed to.
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