Anna is stuck: she's approaching 30, living like a hermit in her mum's garden shed and wondering why the suffragettes ever bothered. She spends her days making videos using her thumbs as actors - thumbs that bicker about things like whether Yogi Bear is a moral or existential nihilist. But Anna doesn't show these videos to anyone and no one knows what they are for. A week before her birthday her Mum serves her an ultimatum - she needs to move out of the shed, get a haircut that doesn't put her gender in question and stop dressing like a homeless teenager. Naturally, Anna tells her Mum to "back the f-off". However, when her school friend comes to visit, Anna's self-imposed isolation becomes impossible to maintain. Soon she is entangled with a troubled eight year old boy obsessed with Westerns, and the local estate agent whose awkward interpersonal skills continually undermine his attempts to seduce her.

大刀王五（陳觀泰 飾）本為北京城內豪杰，經營鏢局為生，俠名遠播。販夫走卒、陌路好漢，遇事喊一聲五爺，則王五必出面維護。湖北巡撫之子譚嗣同（岳華 飾）入京參議新政，慕王五俠義之名，有心結識。是日王五相會情人金菊花（貝蒂 飾）時遭仇人攔截，譚嗣同仗義助拳，二人相談甚歡，結為豪氣干云的異姓兄弟。 　　未幾西太后廢止變法，打壓新黨。譚嗣同托付王五護送康梁二人出奔，自己卻選擇以身殉新法。王五與譚妹（李麗麗 飾）苦勸無果，遂決定于行刑時劫法場救人，王五召集各地武林好漢入京，同時在衙門內安插奧援，無奈最終被叛徒出賣，成就了一段悲情英雄的江湖往事。