Gu, a star reporter in a newspaper, has it all: a good job, a modern apartment, a pretty police officer girlfriend. Little does he realise that his whole universe is about to fall apart after his meeting with Yang, a country bumpkin, who demands public kudos in his newspaper for saving a young girl from rape. Brushing him off at first, Gu finally decides to investigate thanks to Yang's pestering. Things get complicated when Gu befriends the alleged rape victim. At first she refuses to corroborate Yang's story, but later, tries to thwart its publication, claiming her future and reputation are at stake. Caught between objective truth and subjective reality, Gu is forced to delve into his own psyche only to find his value system increasingly unreliable…. Gimme Kudos is a black comedy, juxtaposing the liberal and opportunistic mentality in post-Deng China with a more stagnant culture reminiscent of the times when official kudos were handed out as an instrument of moral propaganda.