A young apprentice is given a mission: to find a new audience for bonsai art, a 1000-year-old tradition to prevent it from dying out in the face of the rapidly changing technological age and achieve his master’s dying wish to bring peace to the world. With no clear path to follow, and a seemingly impossible objective, the apprentice is dogged by failures until he decides to save the tradition by turning it on its ear, abandoning venerated and time-honoured approaches to merge bonsai, fashion, street music, and video.

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