Chow Mo Wan moves from being a gambler to a pulp fiction writer, and '2046' follows him through various liaisons with several beautiful women. Merging past, present, and future, '2046' is at once the number of the hotel room in which the couple from Wong Kar-Wai's 'In The Mood For Love' conducted their extra marital encounters, and the date of Hong Kong's final integration into China.
This is a three-part anthology film about love and sexuality by three directors from three disparate cultures. 'The Dangerous Thread of Things' is the story of a ménage-a-trois between a couple and a young woman on the coast of Tuscany. 'Equilibrium' follows an advertising executive who is under enormous pressure at work. During visits to his psychiatrist, he delves into the possible reasons why his stress seems to manifest itself in a recurring erotic dream. 'The Hand' is a 1960s concerns a high-end call girl in an impossible love affair with her tailor.
