导演认识了两位“朋友”。他与他们之间的交往构成了这部片子。开始，他并没有一个明确的计划要制作一部纪录片，但随着时间的推移，他开始有目的和他们交“朋友”。“朋友”们奇迹般地允许导演进入他们的生活，他们吸毒也贩毒的生活。纪录片的制作者和被拍者之间到底应该是一种什么样的关系，这部影片给出了它的解释。The director himself (who’s also a journalist) encountered in an interview a small group of people who, despite all odds, willingly invite him into their world of drug use and peddling. That’s how “Using” was born.What exactly is the relationship between a filmmaker and those being portrayed, “Using” has the answer.

一个迷人的探索诱惑，禁止的爱，和救赎，一个迷人和激情的故事，一个人从他自己的地狱，因为他试图赢得不可能的:宽恕和爱。

家住上海的小青年杜小西（严顺开 饰）是饲料厂厂长的公子，可是他却有一个不太好听的外号“阿混”。原来他仗着自己的老子是厂长，所以在厂里游手好闲，无所事事，整日里玩耍闲逛，小日子过得无比惬意。为了适应时代的要求，饲料厂准备进行一次青年职工文化考试。厂长顶不住厂里的压力，承诺要让阿混第一批参加考试。可是吃惯了大锅饭的阿混热衷于打扑克，找各种借口躲避复习，还跑到杭州玩耍，期间还伪装成技术员邂逅了美丽的养鸡姑娘肖梅英。回来的考试中阿混作弊，遭到众人讨伐，再也混不下去的他跑到梅英的家继续混吃等死。然而没有真本事的人，到哪里都找不到发展的道路……

当所有的年轻男孩满脑子想的都是「性」时，你要怎么保护自己的女儿呢？道格（汤尼丹萨 饰，电视影集「妙管家」）是一个标准爸爸，如今，他面对了每个爸爸的恶梦----- 吾家有女初长成 ！Doug Simpson is an average father who has to deal with his teenage daughter's transformation into womanhood. And as every teenage boy around her answers the call of their over-active glands, Doug has to wage a one-man war to protect his daughter from them! His efforts send him on night-spying missions, to an explosive drag race, and eventually to jail as he learns what every father with a daughter learns – that sometimes you have to let go to keep the ones you love.