香港半山的一幢七十年古老大屋，住著業主張小姐（丁珮）與姘夫炳少（陳百祥）之外，其他住客如的士輝（劉家輝）、口水驃（盧大偉）、大蓮（李殿朗）、坡叔（劉克宣）、PC強（詹森）及龍醫生（谷峰）等，來自江湖四海，各有背景，各有職業，居於一屋，爭執難免。地產商曾公子（曹查理）透過師爺（羅國維）收購大屋，炳少見錢開眼，於是一連串之逼遷與反逼遷的行動相繼展開，笑中有淚，淚中有笑，最後收購計劃終告失敗，全部住客同被政府徙置於新型屋村。

In “82 Tenants” the widow Zhang and Bing, her new young consort, want to sell an apartment house to a property developer but old man Zhang's will provided that the current tenants can stay there as long as they want or the building survives. So it is clear who the villains are—joining the greedy couple is Chao who has purchased all the land around the building but needs this final piece so he can know everything down and build a money spinning edifice. One the other side are the tenants, a disparate group whose grudgingly and occasionally antagonistically shared communal life, while not ideal, is certainly better than not having a place to live.