Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: family and friends In are evicted from low-rent housing childhood, Fact2: Lai-sheung Later in vows to buy mother and father life, Fact3: uncle not have to walk on daily basis, Fact4: owners decide to raise price, Fact5: police During course of arrive demanding entry final killings
Output (English): In Hong Kong, Cheng Laisheung Josie Ho works two jobs with the hope of earning enough money to buy her own apartment with a view of the Victoria Harbour. In mixed chronological order, we see scenes from Laisheungs past. In her childhood, her family and friends are evicted from their lowrent housing so that developers can build expensive flats. Later in life, she vows to buy her mother and father a new apartment, but is unable to fulfill her promise before her mother dies. When her father becomes ill, she begins searching in earnest for a new place, having an obsession for the Victoria Bay No. 1 highrise address from a childhood vow that she would one day buy a flat near the harbour so that her uncle would not have to walk there and back on a daily basis and not needing to search for him every evening. The bank will only give her a 70 mortgage and payments would reach over 15,000. Unfortunately, because of an oversight in declaring her fathers medical history, she no longer has insurance to pay for his expensive treatment and has to take a second job. After Laisheung does save enough for a downpayment, her fathers medical bills become excessive. When she asks her married lover for a loan to cover these, he refuses. One night her father has trouble breathing and, instead of giving him his oxygen, Laisheung allows him to die. The insurance payment now adds enough money to her current savings to purchase her dream flat. On her way to finalize the purchase, there is a hike in the stock market that makes the owners decide to raise the price. This sends Laisheung into a frenzy where she goes to the flats and attacks people who live and work there, killing them with lowtech, household items. During the course of the final killings, the police arrive at the flat, demanding entry. A struggle ensues during which both officers are killed. Returning to her day job, Laisheung receives a call from her agent saying the owners of the flat she wishes to buy are willing to sell after all. Laisheung suggests that they might want to sell for a lower price, since there were 11 murders in the building the previous evening. That night, Laisheungs lover comes round to pick her up, but she turns her back on him and walks away, ending their relationship. The film concludes with Laisheung staring out at the harbour as newscasts discuss how Americas worsening subprime mortgage crisis is beginning to have global repercussions.