Shanghai in the 1930s was an international metropolis where people were living in a world of luxury and wealth, and a mixed bag of good and bad people. It has both the modern prosperity of the West and the traditional conservatism of the East; it is both a paradise for adventurers and a hotbed for conspirators. There are many concessions, gangs are rampant, political forces are intertwined, and the gap between the rich and the poor is huge. Everything is shrouded in the shadow of the coming war.
