A certain small subtropical island country in Southeast Asia formerly under European rule is multinational, conservative and biased in favor of boys against girls. The state becomes trouble-ridden following the theft one night of a ruby inside a huge cock statue in a Temple. Pan Li-yun, a smart tour guide in Hong Kong, often treats her mother and sister to free meals and ride at the expense of the Company. When this is discovered by her boss, she is asked to pay back the cost. Wei Tien-fu, brought up in an orphanage, runs away to become a shoeshine boy. He later gets acquainted with a tailor shop boss, who adopts him and arranges for him to work in his shop. But Tien-fu remains unbridled and abandons himself to gambling, womanizing, drinking and loitering without thinking of his future. In his girlfriend An's home, Tien-fu picks up an acquaintance with decoration worker Chien Yu-tzu.… ...