The High Cost of Living
Leonard Lai Yok Wai
Singapore | 2006 | 97mins | Beta | Colour | Subtitled

In the modern city of Singapore, everybody has a set path to follow. But once in a while, someone attempts to step off it. Gid and Long are two different yet strangely similar persons on opposite sides of the law.

Gid is a killer for hire but not a very good one. His actions have not gone unnoticed and his latest job has attracted the attentions of the authorities. Long is a professional government assassin whose marriage is failing because of what he does. Gid’s only hope is that he can get out before Long catches up with him.

A trail of bodies lead all the main players to a high tension hostage situation where they will have to deal with not just the police gathering outside but also with their own broken relationships inside. When it is all over, none of them will come out the same.