I thought you might like this.. since Aaron Kwok is in it. Enjoy.. ! just follow the birdie ..!
Tam (Aaron Kwok) is an impoverished private detective. One day, a guy nicknamed Fatty asked him to find a lady, Sum who wanted to kill him. He left Tam a photo of Sum and his offer without elaborating the details. Tam could not resist the temptation of Fatty’s offer and the investigation commences.
Knowing that Sum is a regular patron of this store where the picture is taken, Tam tries to get gather clues of Sum’s whereabouts from store keepers. Tam is told to try looking up Sum’s mahjong playmate, who may be able to help him. Tam starts with Ming; he arrives at Ming’s home and is shocked to discover that Ming hung himself at the living room! Tam finds a few photos in Ming’s cell phone and identified Ying, another mahjong playmate in the store. Tam believes Ying is innocent but gather clues that Ming’s business partner, Fong may be involved. Tam follows the clues and found Fong’s address. Fong is found dead in his house! Soon, Tam’s buddy, police officer Jack confirms both deaths are suicide cases due to huge debts. But the most contradicting and puzzling part: large amount of cash are found at the two victims’ houses.
Gradually, Tam becomes more intrigued with the case and continued investigation, he finally finds out the two victims’ common business partner, Choi. While arriving at Choi’s place, Tam is bewildered at the sight of Choi: as Choi is also Fatty, the one who engage him in this puzzling case. At this instance, the panic-stricken Choi went berserk and wanted to kill himself. Before Choi leaps off the building, he uttered ‘leave me alone!’ in Mandarin with a terrified expression.
After Choi’s death, Tam decides to clear his mind and piece up all the evidences, photos and clues he gathered at the recent sites of deaths. While he is deep in thoughts, a stranger, Wing calls. Wing calls Tam to seek help as he claimed to be in danger. From the call, Tam can also hear Wing quarreling with a lady. Tam decides to meet Wing to investigate, but upon pressing the door bell of Wing’s home, a destructive explosion was triggered, eliminating further clues to the case…
Tam gathers that all these suicides are not normal. He finds a half-burnt photo at the last victim’s scene and discovers that Ming, Fong, Choi and Wing are all friends! The other person in the photo, a bank manager, Hung should be the only one alive who knows the secret behind the recent and sudden deaths of the others. Tam decides to protect Hung as he presumed Hung must be the next target of the invisible “murderer”.
Tam follows Hung to the dark corner of a street, a lady with long hair appears and approaches Hung. Tam catches up with her but carelessly falls into a rift, when the police arrive, they save Tam…and at the same time found the remains of a lady!
It was certified soon that the remains found are those of Sum… Tam looks at the group photos again with sorrow, a vague shadow comes across the photo and he is suddenly inspired…there should the sixth person in the photo, he left out the one who took the picture! Could the person who took the photo knows of the mystery or curse behind the recent deaths? Tam promises to find out…
