A frustrated reporter, Wu, has been assigned a new task, which is follow the famous female writer Eileen Chang’s visit to Taiwan and write a article about it. Wu gets the information that Eileen Chang’s guide is an college student named Wang Zhenhe, who brought the female writer to a local brothel called Shanghai Paradise and had a great feast with the prostitutes. In order to finish his story, Wu goes to the brothel for more clues about her visiting. As he begins his investigation secretly in Shanghai Paradise, Wu gradually finds out that the female writer’s visiting that night seems to have a great influence to the prostitutes. And as he goes deeper, he suspects that the whole incident is just like a fiction written by the writer, and all the women and men in the brothel, including Wu, are the main characters of her story.