On a seesaw, Sun and Moon rise and fall, witnessing four bizarre tales in Sichuan: from prehistoric ancestors born with tails, to a mythic king fated to become a cuckoo; from a legendary medieval poet-politician in exile, to a homeless child on the eve of modern revolution. Through four feasts and festivities spanning four millennia, the living and the dead, gods and ghosts, unite to relish everyday culinary joys.