Reporter Ling (Angelica Lee)'s boyfriend Peter got a tip about a criminal case and died in a traffic accident while collecting evidence. Ling felt something was fishy and found out about a murder of a model after investigation. Model Helen died naked in her bathtub at home. The son of a wealthy man, Cheung Shing-chi, had no alibi, but the police handled the case in a low profile and Cheung's evidence was eliminated. Ling didn't want her boyfriend to die in vain and vowed to find out the truth of the incident, but the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Tsang Tat-shi (Tony Leung), was unwilling to lend a hand to Ling. In desperation, Ling had to ask Fei (Anthony Wong) and Ma Zai (Eric Kot) who were often chased for debts to help her find out the truth. Fei was originally a policeman. During the investigation, he found that the cause of Peter's death was indeed fishy. As the investigation progressed, the dark hand kept trying to put Ling to death. Will the truth of the incident make it to the A1 headline of the newspaper? The race between truth and freedom of speech began at midnight in Hong Kong.