Desire

Desire

2013
30min

Everyone has a price tag and anything can be bought if you are willing to pay the price. Ngai Chi-sang is an up-and-coming artist whose works fetch increasingly lucrative prices in the art market, but his world turns topsy-turvy when an accident takes away his greatest asset. This comes as devastating news to his patron, Sheung Chi-yau, a speculator willing to risk it all in search of high profits. Believing that his lifeline lies in a groundbreaking surgery, the artist enters into a deal with the patron and a surgeon, setting the stage for an intricate cascade of intrigue, deceit and desire and turning the fortune around for all three players.

Desire

Storyline

Everyone has a price tag and anything can be bought if you are willing to pay the price. Ngai Chi-sang is an up-and-coming artist whose works fetch increasingly lucrative prices in the art market, but his world turns topsy-turvy when an accident takes away his greatest asset. This comes as devastating news to his patron, Sheung Chi-yau, a speculator willing to risk it all in search of high profits. Believing that his lifeline lies in a groundbreaking surgery, the artist enters into a deal with the patron and a surgeon, setting the stage for an intricate cascade of intrigue, deceit and desire and turning the fortune around for all three players.
    Released
    18 December 2013
    Runtime
    30min
    Director
    Genre
    Status
    Released
    Language
    Cantonese
    Production
    Fresh Wave, Hong Kong Arts Development Council, The Hong Kong Institute of Education
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