87-year-old Lu Fei opens his eyes and discovers that he will be reborn in 1958 three days from now. He immediately uses his money to purchase massive quantities of supplies. Reborn in 1958 in the fertile black soil of Northeast China, where deer can be hunted with sticks, fish scooped up with ladles, and wild ginseng found on Changbai Mountain, he finds himself in a place where there are no tigers in the mountains and monkeys can reign supreme. While others survive on wild vegetables, roots, and dried fruits, Lu Fei makes sure his younger siblings enjoy meat at every meal.