Several women enter a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years, after the author has lost the woman he considers his one true love.
A train in a futuristic landscape takes passengers to a place where they can recapture their memories, a place from which no one has ever returned. This is the premise of a novel by the womanizing sci-fi writer Chow (Tony Leung Chiu Wai), who engages in passionate affairs with a series of intriguing women he meets at the Oriental Hotel in Hong Kong. As Chow's lovers offer him inspiration for his writing, reality blends with fiction, and the past commingles with the future.
"A languid, shimmering mood piece from a master stylist, with some of Asia's finest actors at their peak." - Empire Magazine
"A gorgeous, fevered dream of a movie that blends recollection, imagination and temporal dislocation to create an emotional portrait of chaos in the aftermath of heartbreak." - Los angeles Times
"As a cinematic bath for the senses, it's a rush, a swoon." - Entertainment Weekly