Hakky Ho (James Yi Lui) holds on to his love of acting and dreams of being a star despite the chaotic, brutal, low-paying, hilarious reality of life as an extra. He falls in love with fellow extra Siu-Fong (Idy Chan), but the star (Kenneth Tsang) wants her for his next extra-marital conquest.

Cops and Robbers depicts a city where ordinary citizens hold little trust for the police; far removed from the post-ICAC Hong Kong of today.

In the year 2037, Ms. 6262 accidentally breaks the time barrier while speeding in her electric car and is transported 50 years into the past. Now in the year 1987, she meets Fang Zhongxin, the owner of a chocolate factory, and they start to spend time together. Before she can return to her own time period, she searches out her mother who is still a young child.