旅菲华侨王柒回乡寻亲认祖，发现族谱上所记载的祖父在离开前的一年已殁于海难，而通过族中老人对祖父旧照片的指认，确定自己的宗族，但是祖父的另一件遗物——一件旧戏袍，又产生了新的疑点。据族中老人所言，家族中从未出现过唱戏的。循着这一戏袍，王柒奔波于戏团之间，最终找到了关于传奇高甲戏武生庄启明和自己祖父的一段往事。

Chinese-Philippine Wang Qi returned motherland to trace his origin, but he came to see that his grandfather recorded in the family tree has passed away a year ago in a marine accident. However, a new doubt surfaced from another piece of relic left behind by his grandfather, a piece of play robe. Tracking the play robe and crisscrossing the circuses, eventually he got a story about the legendary Gaojia Opera actor Zhuang Qiming and his grandfather.