欧阳天晴、邝彩云，两个互不相识的年轻女子上了同一艘船，从珠三角出发，越过伶仃洋，到陌生的南洋谋出路。 邝彩云当了家佣“妈姐”、欧阳天晴则在建筑工地当“红头巾”，多舛的命运等着她们：漂泊无定、诱拐驱逐、牢狱之灾、无情战火、出卖背叛、情感磨难、生离死别......日子艰苦、前路茫茫，但她们始终相信，只要不放弃，绝处必逢生。A film version of a play Fassbinder directed in Hamburg, Clare Booth Luce's The Women. It gave Fassbinder an opportunity to indulge his passion for working with women - there are forty women in the play and no men. The play dates from the 1930s, and Fassbinder was accused by the critics of being anti-women (a frequent criticism of late). As usual, he chose to work against the text, and from this has constructed an entertaining and engaging play about love between upper-class women with nothing better to do than sneer at others when things go wrong with their lives and loves.小职员阿池（黄又南 饰）于凌晨坐上了一辆由九龙旺角开网新界大埔的红色小巴士，车上有司机肥雪（林雪 饰）、义气大叔黄万发（任达华 饰）、神婆（惠英红 饰）、IT男阿信（徐天佑 饰）以及美女Yuki（文咏珊 饰）、吸毒佬（李灿森 饰）等17人。原本平静的夜晚，在小巴穿过狮子山隧道后突然被打破，众人发现除了车上的乘客，全香港的居民仿佛都消失了，一系列的神秘事件接踵而至，大家惊恐之余决定打造统一阵线，以解救自己开启谜团。
