A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.
In 19th century San Francisco's Chinatown, American adventurer Gilbert De Quincey is saving slave girls owned by the Chinese Tong factions.
A Korean emigrant's superstitiously suspicious past starts to catch up with her as her obsession with her married American neighbors begins to twist out of control and off the deep end.