Stop-motion puppets move through a myth that should feel ancient, but each frame burns with immediate life. The Lotus Lantern story has been told a thousand times, but not like this, not with fingers that bend and fabrics that drape and fire that eats space the way only puppets can make you believe. You watch a child trying to save his mother from heaven itself, frame by frame, and the craftsmanship becomes the prayer. This is a film that remembers what animation is supposed to cost.

A puppet stop-motion movie adapting the classic Chinese tale of the Lotus Lantern. It retells that traditional story through handcrafted puppets animated frame by frame, and it sits in the action, adventure and fantasy genres. The film is a single feature rather than a series.