In Hong Kong in 1962, two young couples became neighbors in a rental house, but Mrs. Chow and Mr. Chan's relationship developed into the object of each other's extramarital affairs, while Chow Mu Yun (Leung Chao Wai) and Mr. Chan's wife Su Lizhen (Maggie Cheung) knew nothing about it.
Later, Zhou Muyun and Su Lizhen discovered the extramarital affair of their respective wives (husbands), and Zhou and Su, two people who were hurt by their marriage, began to meet.
In the face of her husband's infidelity, Su Lizhen looked for a way out for her desires, but she was lost. In the face of gossip from the landlord and other people, she deliberately alienated Zhou Muyun and did not dare to let Zhou Muyun send her home, and even did not dare to hit the umbrella sent by Zhou Muyun. But when Zhou Muyun was about to leave, she began to show reluctance. Zhou Muyun, encouraged by Su Lizhen, began to write martial arts novels.
Gossip makes the two discover the secret of their hearts: they are deeply in love with each other, but they are bound by morality and ethics and suffer for it: I thought I would not be like them, I would.
When the marriage collapsed, Zhou Muyun bought a ferry ticket to Singapore and asked her: "If there is one more ticket, will you follow me?" In the end, Zhou Muyun left Hong Kong alone.
The two are always separated and ambiguous. On the poker board, in the alley, on the stairs, the eyes are intertwined again and again, and they want to rest. One wants to chase, one wants to hide. One can't catch up, one can't escape.
The so-called fancy years are actually "ambiguous times", when love has not been confirmed, you come and go, the lights are bright and dark, the shadows are staggered, and people are scattered.
Time never stopped for anyone, he was gone, she was gone, they turned around, and from then on they walked into another story, leaving only those distant, lonely, helpless, ambiguous emotions that were always whispered.
If she had actually agreed to go with him that day, would they still be together now?