It is a May evening in 1999, and Singapore's Orchard Road shows no signs of going to sleep. In a large, luxurious theater not far from city hall, a huge crowd has showed up to see a play about the singular life of Buddhist Master Hongyi, the talental musician and scholar who became a monk at mid-life in 1918.
九九年五月的晚間，新加坡最熱鬧的烏節路上依舊車水馬龍，位於市政府附近的豪華劇場裡，演出的是弘一大師悲欣交集的一生。