Bursting with originality, not least in its extraordinary visual design, Chen Yu-hsun's Chinese New Year release has the darkness, silliness, and weirdness of a Stephen Chow comedy. The Qing dynasty has fallen and the relative peace of Desire Village is under assault by the greed of men. Outsider Rock Peeler (Eric Tsang) sends the Cloud Clan bandits - a weird bunch of beatboxing army deserters led by a butch postman - to attack the time-forsaken hamlet. But his mole in the village has an untimely death by poisoned bun, with suspicion falling on his beautiful widow, Autumn (Shu Qi). Out of nowhere, oddball newcomer and self-professed martial arts master Chan (Joseph Chang Hsiao-chuan) comes to her defense. Just when things couldn’t get more bizarre, a slimy Taoist priest (Wang Qianyuan) with his own plans on Desire Village arrives with a mysterious device, a magical helmet that can remove distressful memories from people's minds.