GANGS OF TAIPEI centers around the troubled lives of five boys coming of age in 1980s Taiwan after the end of military dictatorship. One of them, Mosquito, is invited to be a part of a gang and he soon discovers an irresistible world of friendship and brotherhood. However, Mosquito soon realises that in this violent world things arent always what they seem. When a group of mainlanders attempt to take over, the fragile balance over the districts turf is t hreatened, friendship is tested, and loyalty is questioned.