许丽珍是一位槟榔西施，她与8岁儿子相依为命；生活就像是个无法挣脱的牢笼，让她只能日复一日，忍受旁人轻蔑的眼光，挣钱过活… 直到某天，她与无法走出离婚阴霾的警员林康伟，因缘际会有了进一步接触、了解…而槟榔摊来了一位大陆新娘〝刘惠敏〞，加入西施的行列；而许父，也因为积欠赌债，偷走了许丽珍母亲留下的项链… 当许丽珍准备再次打开心扉，尝试接受林康伟感情之际，许父突然罹癌、好友刘惠敏被强暴…让原本试途扭转命运的许丽珍，面临陷入更大牢笼的危机中…

刘国忠（任达华 饰）是一个身患绝症的警察，他的前途暗淡无光，他接到任务要保护一个证人的女儿。督察马军（甄子丹 饰）是身手了得的武术家，一心要接替忠的位置。忠派去黑道大哥宝爷（洪金宝 饰）身边的卧底意外死亡，原因不明，忠怀疑是宝爷所为。于是把宝爷押送到警局盘问，苦于没有证 据，忠迫不得已开始捏造证据控告宝爷，全警局都深谙此道，只有军蒙在鼓里。然而，证据神秘消失，宝爷走出警局时，扬言要杀掉忠的所有手下，果然他身边的冷血杀手Jack（吴京 饰）干掉了忠一帮下属，马军意外发现，忠的下属和宝爷之间原来还另有恩怨，马军怒火中烧，决定与宝爷和Jack决一死战。

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.

《美少女战士》的新剧场版《美少女战士Cosmos》将于2023年初夏分为前后两部上映。本作为《美少女战士》系列的最终章《银河之影篇》，新的敌人嘉拉西亚出现。三石琴乃、金元寿子、佐藤利奈、小清水亚美、伊藤静、福圆美里、皆川纯子、大原沙耶加、前田爱、藤井幸代、野岛健儿等将继续参与配音。