Tony Leung plays Chow, a writer who moves into a small Hong Kong hotel, befriends the daughter of the owner (Faye Wong), and gradually works his way through a number of equally beautiful women, including a neighboring call girl (Zhang Ziyi) and a gambler witha black glove (Gong Li).
When his intimate moment with the beautifulgirl who'd ignored him in high school became a movie reality, did he feel like a stand-in for nerds everywhere?