When influential Chinese artist Maleonn learns his father, famed Peking opera director Ma Ke, has Alzheimer’s disease, he knows time is short. Their shared remembrances will soon disappear. In a last-ditch effort to preserve them, the two embark on one of their greatest journeys.
They collaborate on a haunting autobiographical stage performance called Papa’s Time Machine which features magical life-size mechanical puppets. In the play, a scientist constructs a time machine so that his father can relive some of their happiest memories.
Together, they race against time to stage the show before Ma Ke’s recollections are lost forever.
