吾辈本如斯

　　在三联帮有杰出表现的山鸡（陈小春 饰）即将迎娶日本帮派山田组的头目草刈一雄（千叶真一 饰）的女儿菜菜子（安雅 饰）。身为好友的陈浩南（郑伊健 饰）及一众香港的黑帮头目也到日本出席了山鸡的婚礼。
　　三联帮帮主的儿子雷复轰是个有能之士，对父亲的帮派事业毫无兴趣。山鸡成了他心中继承位置的最佳人选，却遭到了同是帮内头目的忠勇伯的反对，他决意要与山鸡争取帮主的地位。两人明争暗斗，忠勇伯这时被袭击了，他认定山鸡指使了人攻击他。俩人再次因为有关政府的方案而互相对立，帮派内讧。
　　山鸡除了事业上的不如意，妻子菜菜子更被父亲手下强奸了。山鸡正处在水深火热之中，陈浩南前往台湾助山鸡一臂之力，雷复轰却为了帮内团结要把让忠勇伯当帮主。忠勇伯竟在这个时候被杀了，山鸡再次被嫌疑……

　　Like Fritz Lang, David Fincher or Bong Joon Ho before him, talented debut filmmaker Lado Kvataniya uses the concept of police detective vs serial killer for an excitingly stylised, macabre and haunting narrative, that ultimately revolves around the identity of an era: in this case, the late 1980s Soviet Union. With Glasnost and the end of communist rule, the West also learned of the (unsurprising) fact that there were serial killers in Russia too – the most notorious case probably that of Andrei Chikatilo, nicknamed the Rostov Ripper, or the Russian Hannibal Lecter.
　　Based on these and many other sources, Kvataniya and screenwriter Olga Gorodetskaya constructed an immersive psychological puzzle, jumping back and forth in time, to reveal ever new-possible motives for the actions of all the protagonists. It all starts in 1990, when Detective Issa Davydov is celebrating his promotion and receives a call, reporting a crime that looks precisely like the ones of the serial killer that he famously captured some years before ...