Coco leads an intense life in the lively subculture of the boomtown Shanghai. It revolves around endless nights spent in the Shanghai club and art scene, sex, literature and the writing of her first novel. Her life takes an unexpectedly complicated turn when she suddenly feels attracted to two very opposite men.
Bai Ling
Coco
Luke Goss
Mark
Gregory Wong Chung-Yiu
Tian Tian
Katja Riemann
Eva
Seiko Matsuda
Madonna
Anya
Cheng Pei-Pei
Conny
Coco leads an intense life in the lively subculture of the boomtown Shanghai. It revolves around endless nights spent in the Shanghai club and art scene, sex, literature and the writing of her first novel. Her life takes an unexpectedly complicated turn when she suddenly feels attracted to two very opposite men.
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