Delicately flirting with eroticism, the animated film The Banquet of the Concubine, by young Chinese director Hefang Wei, recounts one of the most famous love stories of Imperial China. In this tale of bitter jealousy, nothing can sweeten the heart of an abandoned mistress, not even the luscious lychee.

The movie tells the story of Lao Wu, an ordinary bath master in a small town in the northeast with a history of more than 30 years in the "Minle public baths", who has excellent skills and an optimistic personality. However, in order to save his son Binbin, who is in a coma after a car accident, Old Wu goes south to Shenzhen to take over the "Star of the Sea" bathing center, and his three old workers work side by side again. A series of ludicrous stories happened in the modern metropolis in the south