True Women for Sale

True Women For Sale is a 2008 drama film directed by Herman Yau and starring Prudence Liew and Anthony Wong Chau Sang.

Lai ChungChung Prudence Liew is a cocaineaddicted yet goodnatured street walker who is fast approaching a destiny call made by a fortune teller advising her that in the year 2000, she would finally pay off all her debts from her previous life and will turn over a new leaf. To prepare herself for the lifechanging event, she works hard to save up for a dentistry process to clean her badly decaying teeth and gums from years of cocaine use. After witnessing Lai heroically save a child from being hit by a van, freelance photographer Chi Sammy Leung thought that Lai would make a good human interest story for a magazine and starts to photograph Lai while having his girlfriend, journalist Elaine Toby Leung interview her. During Elaines interview with Lai, it is revealed that Lai has had a troubled past with her mother and younger sister.The other subject is Wong LinFa Race Wong, a woman from Mainland China who married Kin a middleaged, constructionworking Hong Konger, in hopes of attaining a better life by gaining Hong Kong residency. Upon hearing Kin died in a work accident, Wong travels to Hong Kong, pregnant with Kins child in hopes of collecting an abundance of condolence money from Kins family. However, she only receives HK5000 and is kicked out by the family, who labels Wong as a golddigger. She then moves into Kins apartment in a building that has many prostitutes, including Lai. Insurance broker Lau FuYi Anthony Wong ChauSang notifies Wong that Kin had bought life insurance with her as the sole beneficiary. Lau later begins an unlikely friendship with Wong, helping her with her quest to give birth and gain residency in Hong Kong, all the while trying to sell her insurance. Lau has a way of classifying people in his head by calculating their potential insurance coverage. He does this for Lai and Chi and quickly dismisses them as having a potential of 0 while evaluating Wong at US2 million. ........

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