In the mood for love

Chow Mo-Wan (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai) is the chief editor of a local newspaper in Hong Kong, in the year 1962. Chow moves with his wife to an apartment the same day you make your Lizhen (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) and her husband. For work their partners are leaving town for a while, staying both casa.Debido alone in this, Chow and Su begin to spend a lot of time together and strike up a friendship soon discover that their spouses have an affair between them. Who will spend much more time together to comfort each other. Even they engage one another's work. According to their relationship becomes more intimate and people start to suspect. Each of them tries to convince the other to not let your respective partner.