The years have worn out Tang Zhijun, the editor-in-chief of the foremost space exploration magazine in China. His entire life is now a paean to a space age long gone. When he hears of a collective UFO sighting in a remote village called Burning Nest, he glimpses a possibility for redemption. Flanked by a cynical staffer, a drunk, and an insomniac groupie, he journeys westward to the Daliang Mountains of Sichuan to face the truth about the universe...