A god-tier warrior gets locked away, and the world crumbles without him, then a kid accidentally finds him frozen in the mountains, and everything changes. The Monkey King doesn't wake up grateful or noble; he wakes up furious, trapped, bound by chains that actually work on him, which means his rage has nowhere to go except toward this one small person who freed him. You're watching raw power collide with helplessness, watching a legend learn what it means to care about something smaller and more fragile than himself. The animation moves like the Monkey King fights, unrestrained, reckless, beautiful in its violence. This is what happens when you give a kid the only thing strong enough to save his world, and that thing is angry.

Legend holds that the Monkey King was once unbeatable in battle and roamed Heaven, Earth and Hell as he pleased. After he broke some of the most vital laws of the Gods, he was sealed in a cage of ice beneath the mountains, held by the only forces capable of restraining him. With him gone, darkness spreads over China. A small boy runs from monsters that have attacked his village and takes refuge in the mountains. There he comes upon a strange icy pillar bound in chains. When he touches the ice, the spell breaks, setting this fantasy adventure film in motion.