故事发生在解放前后。郑琛(陈庭威 饰)、李乃强(欧锦棠 饰)和朱润(刘锡贤 饰)是广东潮州同乡的好兄弟,郑琛父亲是当地殷实的商人,郑家在当地有着非常高的声望。少年郑琛就已经显示出了过人的谋略和胆识,十年潮州一带土匪作乱,郑琛用计吓跑了他们,随后更是主持公道,化解了上莲村、下莲村之间的恩怨。解放后,他和李乃强、朱润一起来到了香港闯天下。初到香港,三人穷得叮当响,但是他们并不灰心,而是开始了由低做起,一步一个脚印,在经历了一连串了风风雨雨后,三人都获得了巨大的成功,郑琛成了香港的制衣业龙头,刚正不阿的李乃强在经过廉政风暴后终于在警界站稳了脚跟,朱润则成了连锁饮食业巨头。他们的奋斗历史也印证了香港的发展。
Since the cult success of Merci Patron!, activist/journalist/filmmaker François Ruffin has become an MP. Here, he attempts to table a law aimed at upholding the rights of what in Quebec are known as caregivers, and shows us in passing how a law whose need seems patently obvious is put together, debated, voted on and . . . dies on the battleground of French politics. A stirring documentary about social injustice that somehow manages to make us bust a gut laughing as we rage with indignation. And also cry at the beauty of it all, thanks to the director’s humanist sensibility and a deft play between reality and fiction.