In the year 2020, Shanghai is the cool, hi-tech financial centre of the world… and it’s a battleground! Shanghai is the home of RedHong and Biotronikal, the two mega-corporations that control neo-marketing, a vertical business model based on implanting chips on people to monitor and manipulate their consuming behaviour. Sounds evil? Well, it’s all been orchestrated by Cruella de Vil’s role model, Miss van Horn, and her archenemies from Biotronikal.

Xiao Du, a dog toy designer, minding his own business in his pursuit of a happy, simple life, gets unwittingly wrapped up in a world of corporate intrigue and freedom fighters when the RedHong Neoworld Tower is blown to pieces two days before its inauguration. Initially, it seems like the rivalry between the two companies has escalated to a new level, but it turns out that the attack on the empty building was the work of an unknown terrorist group led by a handsome and cunning man who calls himself Che.

Xiao Du is kidnapped by Thunder, a feisty terrorist woman, and both are chased by RedHong’s private security force: the one-and-only, sexy SWAT Chicks! And right behind them is the blood-thirsty Delete Key, Biotronikal’s own hired gun.

Shanghai 2020 is not your ordinary action film packed with car chases on elevated highways, sexy women, fancy cars and special effects. It is all that but produced by an independent community of filmmakers, whose resourcefulness make up for not having a multi-million dollar budget. How’s that for daring?