Three provincial girls debarks in Peking. Each seeks success in the capital. Yu Quin, with a degree in the lyric arts, set out from her native village, leaving her two year old daughter behind. She works as a bar hostess in a night-club frequented by the Nomenklatura and the nouveaux riches, but retains a nostalgia for her past. Hu jin, following her intuition, deserts her studies to seek her fortune in the labyrinthine city. Bit part player and “model” in Peking’s studios, her search is sown with misadventure. After several suicide attempts, Zun Zhi, a repentant junkie, become a “dancing-queen” in Peking’s discotheques. Rebellious and “devil may care”, she dance to celebrate the wee hours of the centuries old city and forget her heavy past. Under the harsh light of the gaudy neons and through the sketches of their daily “marginality”, hopes are tainted with mockery.