 Cheung, an illegal immigrant in a completely Chinese area of New York, is caught by two US Immigration Officers. He arranges to pay Cindy Li, the Chinese-American sister of his young friend, to marry him to help his application for a green card. The Immigration Officers are suspicious that the marriage is a sham when they don t find them living together. Meanwhile Dai Fu is threatening Cheung and his roommate, another an illegal immigrant, if they don t make the payments for being smuggling into the US.