It's now the early 1950s and, having survived the Japanese invasion of southern China, Man and his family have pitched up in British-controlled Hong Kong.

After a power-hungry general exterminates a rival clan in ancient China, a doctor raises the lone infant survivor as his own son, hoping to turn the boy into an instrument of revenge.

The story of real-life gangster Chen Daqi, following his rise through the criminal hierarchy to the echelons of power. Along the way he is torn between the love of two women, involved with murderous plots, and trying to deal with the threat of war.