故事发生在闭塞的山区之中，韩冲（王紫逸 饰）为了捕猎设置了炸药，哪知道这炸药没被动物踩到，却被同村的腊宏（余皑磊 饰）给踩了个正着。炸药爆炸了，腊宏身受重伤，最终不治身亡，留下了可怜的哑巴妻子（郎月婷 饰）和一双儿女。经过全村人民的商议，韩冲决定赔钱将这件事情私聊，可是哑巴媳妇却似乎对赔偿的金额完全没有兴趣，整天疯疯癫癫胡言乱语，大家都认为，丈夫的死对于这个女人来说打击过大，她疯了。无奈之下，韩冲只得背负起了照顾母子三人生活的责任，在此过程中，他渐渐发现了哑巴媳妇的温柔可爱之处，两人渐渐走到了一起。

In his bold, poetic approach, Clu Gulager manages to pack a decade's worth of experimentation into a fast, economical 20 minutes. Images dissolve and bleed into one another, freeze-frame and turn into paintings. Gulager also utilizes different camera speeds and even (and this is something I haven't seen before) the grain of the film to achieve his effects. Laszlo Kovacs' sun bleached photography helps immeasurably in streamlining such techniques into a powerfully eccentric, disturbingly compelling narrative. Far from pretentious (the word I'd use to describe most "experimental" films from the late sixties), this film comes off both as a celebration of childhood innocence and an uncompromising examination of its darkest extremes. And furthermore, Gulager and Kovacs achieve what may be the most unsettling final freeze frame ever.

江湖大佬洪仁就（刘德华 饰）功成名就，无奈高处不胜寒，手下高佬（曾志伟 饰）等人心怀鬼胎，似乎唯有多年来为其出生入死、情愿肝脑涂地的好兄弟左手（张学友 饰）值得信赖。洪喜得贵子之际，得悉有人买凶取他性命。饱经风雨的洪冷静对待，坐看风起。曾几何时，混在江湖底层的翼仔（余文乐 饰）目睹大哥死状，遂决心以死复仇。好兄弟铁臂（陈冠希 饰）虽患其安危，却仍寸步不离，紧随其后。命中注定的终点，每前进一步都是那样艰难。夜深人静，洪仁就与左手对坐用餐，觥筹交错，美食盛宴，哪管外面草菅人命，血流成河。凶险肃杀之夜，兄弟情义承受着最大的考验……

该片根据奥田英朗的小说改编，讲述一家理发店父子之间的故事。