Bao, Jai Jai, Ahn, and Xiao Jin are four Beijing "duckies" (male prostitutes). They entered the profession for various reasons. Bao wants to earn easy money, Jai loves the freedom the job brings, Ahn enjoys having sex with a different man every day. But Xiao Jin's rationale tops them all: he wants to join the world's oldest profession to express solidarity with society's lower depths. Xiao Jin's older brother is incensed, but in spite of all his best efforts to change Xiao Jin's mind, the young man remains resolute. Just as suddenly, however, Xiao Jin finds another job. This time he has his sites set on a line of work even more contemptible than being a hustler...
"Money Boy Diares'" (originally titled "Ayaya Feeding Boys") writer and director Cui Zi En is probably China's most independent and daring filmmaker. Using a deliberately absurd plotline filled with wit and biting black humor, he succeeds in highlighting the hypocrisy of a society caught between the traditional and the new.