Lin Page 4 near-demise is known only to yourself, all this just so they can rush to stop at the red light at the next corner. Gun Duk will eventually lose his life to a light bus, one of those mini-vans that shimmy as they scream around the turns in downtown Wanchai. He will be fleeing his creditors, the familiar tale of high interest and physical punishment, just a case of getting mixed up with the wrong boss. More specific-ally, the wrong boss's would-be girlfriend Miho. What emotions seize his face when he is caught in the glare of the onrushing headlights? Shock? Bemusement? Exhaustion? Maybe even accept-ance? Halley: Early twenties, relentless, boundless, and above all, honest. She has the drive to be a filmmaker, but no training or experience. Open-minded but inflexible, where Paul is close-minded but flexible. It has not been decided how they met - perhaps she nearly ran him over one day (for she is an absent-minded driver), and he was in an unnaturally forgiving mood. Or perhaps, seized with an idea for a film about psychotic therapists, she posed as a patient to pick his brain ("It seems to me that you have, um, contradictory symptoms …"). No boyfriend, no time for them - they are too demanding, anyway. People talk about a woman's neediness and dependency, but it is always the man whining about the woman not being home on a Saturday evening. She simply cannot accommodate that sort of willy-nilly schedule; she may be struck with the desire to shoot the moon rising over Telegraph Hill, or spend the evening repainting her apartment for the third time this month. But at least with Paul, there are no expectations or obligations. She often calls him at three in the morning - yes, she has heard all the evidence that suggests that three o'clock is the soul's low