In the aftermath of the second world war in Germany

a mother has to leave her child to be able to escape

two former Gestapo officers, who are in search of revenge for what she did during the war, when her code name was Viper. She leaves the boy in the care of two ladies of the quarter, Hamburg’s famous Red Light District, the Kiez, as the locals call it.

The more the boy learns from his “aunts”, who care for him, the more his desire grows to become like his mum, when he grows up. At his fifth birthday his mind is made up.

 

When five years later, now in secondary education he defends Mei Ling, an older girl against an older boy, she takes him for a tomboy and her family takes ‘her’ in. The patriarch, Master Wang Da Long notices her potential and starts teaching the child, whom he names Xiăolóng,

ancient chinese martial arts.

At her fifteenth birthday Master Wang sends Xiăolóng to Italy and a family, who was associated to Viper during the war.

Here Xiăolóng starts stepping into her mother’s footsteps.