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In a Dong village in southern China, plans for a memorial to the protective goddess Sà stall when the ancient site collides with the modern placement of family homes, a budding tourism sector, and modernization's impact on ancient customs, forcing a negotiation between sacred tradition and economic survival.
The film moves across three layers: an empirical layer of expert interviews and archival material; a sensorial layer of experiential, docu-fiction narrative following day-to-day dynamics; and a mythological layer of stylized puppet theater bringing Dong mythology to the screen.
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