En un mundo moralmente plano en el que la ropa tiene más sentido que la piel, Patrick Bateman es un espécimen soberbiamente elaborado que cumple todos los requisitos de Master del Universo, desde el diseño de su vestuario hasta el de sus productos químicos. Es prácticamente perfecto, como casi todos en su mundo e intenta desesperadamente encajar en él. Cuando más intenta ser como cualquier otro hombre adinerado de Wall Street, más anónimo se vuelve y menos control tiene sobre sus terribles instintos y su insaciable sed de sangre, que lo arrastra a una vorágine en la que los objetos valen más que el cuerpo y el alma de una persona.
Jerry Webster y Carol Templeton se dedican a la publicidad, aunque trabajan para diferentes agencias. Molesta por los métodos empleados por Jerry (alcohol y mujeres) para conseguir los contratos, Carol intenta echarlo de la profesión. Para evitarlo, Jerry camela a la chica que iba a testificar contra él, convirtiéndola en la estrella de un anuncio para televisión, de una importante marca, que acaba de conseguir.
After seeing a friend of his boss' son adopted over his promised promotion with connections, Shrimp's father, a minor white-collar worker Ng Kwun-sing, vows to get Shrimp a place in a prestigious school and a chance to make friends with the rich. However, Shrimpy is constantly bullied and discriminated against by his classmates. Ng has not the means to be a social climber and finally realises his mistake. He sends his son to a voluntary school so that he may grow up happily. This poignant father-son drama shows a parents' willingness to carve out a good future for their children by any means necessary.
Graham se muda a su recién adquirida casa sin saber que tendrá que enfrentarse a su anterior inquilino: un vagabundo demente y nauseabundo que acabará con su cordura.
The Diary of a Husband serves as an illustration for the arrival of the white-collar economy, in which the extended family is replaced by the smaller nuclear family. It is a story about four pals who work at the same office, which, like other white-collar workplaces, has become the men's primary site of life, where livings are made and friendships fostered. Meanwhile, their wives have fostered something of their own—a brigade to catch cheating husbands. Much comedy is then generated by the cat-and-mouse game between the men and the women...The battle line drawn here between the sexes remains for years, to the extent that this very same story has been retold many times in Hong Kong films, including Men Suddenly in Black, the 2003 Pang Ho-cheung film with a similar Chinese title.