A noir thriller set in China on the eve of revolution seen through the eyes of an American caught up in one of the great political movements of the 20th century.
Len Bouchard is a young Creole jazz trumpeter-- a veteran of the Great War, who is sick of bloodshed. But in 1925 he is caught up in a shootout and kills a hoodlum. He goes on the run ending up in Shanghai, a wide-open city where Green Gang thugs and Communist cadres battle each other in the streets. With his new Chinese friend, Len puts together a jazz band, then falls in love with Nika, a beautiful Russian refugee who is fleeing from the Bolsheviks. He's beginning to put his life back together-- until he is drawn into a complex plot by a Soviet agent whose wife has been kidnapped by a brutal warlord.Genre: Historical
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