American artist is horrified when his model/love interest Suzie, a street prostitute, shows up in his Hong Kong apartment proudly wearing a brand new "Western-style" dress. He calls her a whore and, violently shaking her like he might a child, tears the dress off her maligned body. In the following sequence he gives her an "authentic" Chinese wedding dress and is enchanted by the resulting vision in (virginal) white: restored to a more desirable state of "purity" by the white artist, she is suddenly demure, docile, "properly" Chinese. It is significant that while red is the color of happiness and marriage in Chinese symbology, white is the color of death and mourning.