Character Relationship Map: Drifting

Characters

• Fai (played by Francis Ng Chun-Yu) — protagonist

  Fai is a former prisoner who returns to Tung Chau Street and rejoins a community of street sleepers. He helps pursue a lawsuit over the destruction of their belongings and is the only member who rejec...

• Chan Mui (played by Loletta Lee Lai-Chun) — supporting

  Chan Mui is a dishwasher and one of the drug-addicted residents living in the wooden huts beneath the flyover. She belongs to the same displaced street-sleeper community as Fai and participates in the...

• Master (played by Gardner Tse Kwan-Ho) — supporting

  Master is a Vietnamese boat person and a drug-addicted resident of the wooden-hut community. With Ms. Ho's help, he reconnects online with his migrated family, but the reunion does not restore his hop...

• Dai Shing (played by Tommy Chu Pak-Hong) — supporting

  Dai Shing is an electrician and one of the drug-addicted people living among the street sleepers in the wooden huts. He is part of the vulnerable community affected by the forced eviction, the legal d...

• Muk (played by Will Or Wai-Lam) — supporting

  Muk is a nonverbal young man who joins the wooden-hut community after Chan Mui and Lan move to public housing. Fai gradually forms a close bond with him, and Muk becomes emotionally significant to Fai...

• Muk's Mother (played by Cecilia Yip Tung) — supporting
• Lan (played by Baby Bo) — supporting

  Lan is a paraplegic person and one of the drug-addicted residents of the wooden huts beneath the flyover. She shares the precarious living conditions and legal uncertainty faced by Fai and the other s...

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Muk's Mother → Muk (mother)

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Dai Shing → Chan Mui (Social Fellow Resident) — Their relationship emerges from shared shelter and social vulnerability.

  Dai Shing and Chan Mui are both named as residents of the wooden-hut settlement.

• Master → Lan (Social Fellow Resident) — They are members of the same temporary community.

  Master and Lan live together among the street sleepers in the wooden huts.

• Master → Chan Mui (Social Fellow Resident) — Their connection is based on shared residence and displacement.

  Master and Chan Mui are both identified as residents of the wooden huts.

• Master → Muk (Social Fellow Resident) — They coexist within the same fragile settlement.

  Master and Muk are both residents of the wooden-hut community after Muk joins the group.

• Chan Mui → Lan (Alliance Shared Relocation) — Their parallel relocation marks a change in the residents' circumstances.

  After the long wait, Chan Mui and Lan move from the wooden huts to a public apartment.

• Fai → Muk (Social Emotional Bond) — Muk becomes Fai's closest emotional connection in the settlement.

  Fai gradually develops a bond with Muk after the nonverbal young man joins the wooden-hut community.

• Fai → Lan (Social Fellow Resident) — They share a shelter community formed after the eviction.

  Lan, a paraplegic person, lives among the residents of the wooden huts with Fai.

• Fai → Dai Shing (Social Fellow Resident) — They belong to the same displaced street-sleeper group.

  Dai Shing, an electrician, is listed among the residents of the wooden huts where Fai lives.

• Fai → Master (Social Fellow Resident) — Their relationship is shaped by shared homelessness.

  Master is identified as one of the drug-addicted residents living in the wooden huts with Fai.

• Fai → Chan Mui (Social Fellow Resident) — They share the same precarious shelter and community.

  Chan Mui lives with Fai and the other street sleepers in the wooden huts under the flyover.

Story Analysis

The film follows displaced street sleepers confronting institutional injustice, fragile solidarity, unresolved grief, and the limits of legal recognition.

Plot Progression

1. A Home Taken Away — Fai returns from prison and rejoins street sleepers in Sham Shui Po. Their sleeping place is violently cleared, forcing them to build wooden huts under a flyover.
2. Shelter And Solidarity — The residents form a fragile community in the huts. Legal action begins, while some residents later move into public housing and Muk joins the group.
3. Connection And Loss — Fai develops a bond with Muk, then leaves to reunite with his family. Master reconnects online with his migrated family but later dies by suicide.
4. Justice Put On Trial — Public attention focuses on the residents' histories instead of the eviction injustice. A settlement divides the group when Fai refuses to abandon his demand for an apology.
5. The Last Winter — The discovery of illegal arms triggers a demolition order and forces the residents to relocate. Fai remains behind, confronts his past through Muk's imagined image, and burns the huts with himself ins...