Fu Pi-Hui

Peigang, his family's only son for three generations running, is to be executed on account of larceny, but not without the intervention of his grandmother.

Three people with their karma entwined meet in three different periods of Chinese history: Ming Dynasty China, early Republican China, and modern-day Taiwan.

In a story drawn from China's legendary Warring States Period, the King of Yue, Goujian, is defeated and imprisoned by the King of Wu, Fucha.