Heroin and methamphetamine move across the porous border between Myanmar and a newly affluent China, and this ABC Australia report follows the traffic from both ends. On the Myanmar side, impoverished farmers smuggle drugs north because they cannot afford Chinese goods heading the other way; Myanmar's output has shifted from heroin toward ice-type and amphetamine-type drugs to match Chinese demand, with China itself now a major supplier of the precursor chemicals used to make them. Professor Wu Jiang tells the crew plainly that dealing drugs is the fastest way to get rich. The film then follows the trade into China's booming cities, where a Shanghai-style party scene has made recreational drug use, in one interviewee's words, fun and fashionable. One estimate cited puts registered addicts rising from 70,000 in 1990 to nearly two million, with actual users possibly as high as twelve million. The report also traces new synthetic drugs reaching as far as Australia, prompting joint operations between Australian and Chinese authorities.