خلاصه داستان : وقتی هنرمند با نفوذ چینی Ma Liang (معروف به مالون) فهمید که پدرش Ma Ke ، مدیر ارشد اپرای پکن ، از بیماری آلزایمر رنج می برد ، او از پدرش دعوت می کند تا در بلند پروازانه ترین پروژه اش باهاش همکاری کند و...

When influential Chinese artist Ma Liang (a.k.a. Maleonn) realizes that his father Ma Ke, an accomplished Peking Opera director, is suffering from Alzheimer's disease, he invites his father to collaborate on his most ambitious project to date - a haunting, magical, autobiographical stage performance featuring life-size mechanical puppets called "Papa's Time Machine". Through the creation of this play, the two men confront their mortality before time runs out and memories are lost forever.