Wong Kar-wai, cult director of In the Mood for Love, Chunking Express and Fallen Angels, cast two of Hong Kong's biggest male stars in his first film shot outside Hong Kong. Lai (Tony Leung) and Ho (Leslie Cheung) arrive in Argentina as lovers, but while driving south in search of adventures, something goes wrong and Ho leaves for Buenos Aires. Devastated, Lai finds work in a tango bar and attempts to carry on, but is consumed with the thought of being 'happy together' once again with Ho.

A heady cocktail of sound and vision, Wong, winner for best director at Cannes, and his cinematographer, Christopher Doyle marry the rythms of Buenos Aires and Frank Zappa's jazz to an astonishing array of images.