Set in 1960, the film centres on the young, boyishly handsome Yuddy, who learn from the drunken ex-prostitute who raised him that she is not his real mother. Hoping to hold onto him, she refuses to divulge the name of his real birth mother. The revelation shakes Yuddy to his very core, unleashing a cascade of conflicting emotion. Two women have the bad luck to fall for Yuddy. One is a quiet lass named Su Lizhen who works at a sports arena, while the other is a glitzy showgirl named Mimi. Perhaps due to his unresolved Oedipal issues, he passively lets the two compete for him, unable or unwilling to make a choice. As Lizhen slowly confides her frustration to a cop named Tide, he falls for her. The same is true for Yuddy's friend Zeb, who falls for Mimi. Later, Yuddy learn of his birth mother's whereabouts and heads out to the Philippines.

story in the early sixties as the background Alfy Shanghai immigrants that he never saw the mother, childhood, raised by a foster mother grew up, he encountered a woman in the life ruthless. Bohemian, he met with the conductor Ms and dancer Mimi cohabitation, but later have abandoned them. The hooligan was determined to find the mother, for which he alone went to southeast Asia. Has secret crush on Ms police witnessed Ms and hooligan break, decided to change to run the ship. In the Philippines, he saw the punk, the hooligan has been seriously wounded in a fight. Two people out of the chase, and a return home on the train, the hooligan was shot and killed. Leslie Cheung plays punk, like a legless bird do whatever they want, and indulge in the joy of freedom, and she still escape not a heavy sense of destiny date to find the mother. Look for birth mother is strong motives and spiritual direction, for which he traveled to the Philippines, to find his real "home". Experienced a real, and it is heavy journey of life, the birds came back, his feet and finally fell to the ground, but he also died. 19 60 April 16, three in the afternoon before the one minute, you told me together I will remember this very minute. It is a fact, we can not change - because it has passed. "Phrase thrilling lines to clarify the contradiction between time and memory: The memory attempt to retain the time, but the nature of time is not to retain. For discrete and one-dimensional, one-way, the absolute contrast to the time, space performance, unreal, of no fixed legless birds flying over the forest: light blue dreams. Because no feet, it must fly, life can only landed once, and that is when he died. Where to go, this is a problem. Leslie Shanghai immigrants, to find the mother living in southeast Asia; Zhang's mother was determined emigrated to the United States; Andy look forward to running the ship to street life; Maggie several times to and from Hong Kong and Macao. Stay in Hong Kong's Carina Lau, Jacky Cheung, relatives and friends to leave and rattled. This mentality is not so much the sixties, as the 1990s. Now states in the Context of the memory associated with the expectation linked to the future. Foot bird "the tragedy is that it can not have the memories and expectations are always trade-off: either forgotten or despair. Leslie had forgotten the love of one minute, but look for his mother's desire immortality; when he was mother abandoned again and finally despair, the memory of one minute before the resurgence is already facing a lifetime only that landing. The trajectory of the intersection of time and space of death, only death to end drift (space loss), and only death can heal forget (time loss). Nostalgia: Night, Rain King, bluish, cool colors, the shallow depth of field, tango, it is precisely the rhythm of the dance cut and lazy mood ... when it comes to character Drift rootless, a sense of belonging, not only simple nostalgia. Looking back at forward has become the metaphor, legless bird's story is almost the fable of the city. Narrative form is not very fancy, Wong Kar-wai usual voice-over interior monologue approach has emerged, the usual concerns are involved: the fate of the rootless, emotional alienation, loneliness, forget, refuse, and the fear of rejection. Doyle's photography style is still relatively simple, but also begun to take features: multi-indoor scene, night scene, with a cold, dark lighting. In particular, is completely hand-held camera reflection in motion, never fixed orientation of the characteristics to make his painting style composition, dramatic run out of the "Fifth Generation" pull away. The end part, Maggie Cheung, Carina Lau, Tony Leung of that fragment exactly indicate what? Perhaps only a glimpse of clues from the Ashes ". "Days of Being Wild sequel to abortive, it is a great pity.