影片叙述始于上个世纪50年代，广州粤剧伶人携着“普长春班”远渡南洋，扎根马来西亚，在戏班的兴衰、娘惹后裔的家族憾事以及拿督公的乡野传说中，贯穿国家独立的风云动荡，承载半个世纪的景况百味，构筑出了一个属于马来西亚本土华人的草根故事。

Zhang a middle aged man struggling with a dead end job as an insurance sales person, on the verge of divorce with his wife, losing custody of her daughter and on top of all this he had to take care of his father who's suffering Alzheimer's. Unknowingly Zhang was invited to join an underground fighting game for financia…

1987年马泰边界，吉打象屿山下的村落里，村民阿昌是民间神明拿督公的虔诚信仰者，妻子阿燕却不以为然。某日阿昌驱赶神龛前的蛇，不慎打破暹罗裔邻家屋墙。两周后，阿昌突在田埂晕阙，口吐血丝锈钉，村人知悉各圆其说，阿燕全然不信，决意为丈夫遍寻药方。三个月后，阿昌久病不愈，阿燕无计可施，到洞穴祭拜象屿山神。此时，穴内出现一名女子，向…