Maggie Cheung’s hustler from Guangzhou moves to Hong Kong determined to get rich. Leon Lai’s rube from Tianjin migrates to Hong Kong to earn enough money to marry the girl back home. When the two immigrants meet by chance, they strike up an alliance that grows into friendship, and then friendship becomes something much more fun and complicated. Peter Chan’s epic 1996 romantic comedy Comrades: Almost a Love Story depicts a cosmopolitan Hong Kong full of romantic potential for working people.