Século XV. Com a eclosão das guerras civis, dois jovens tentam incentivar a população, desgastada pelos flagelos, resgatando a Festa do Gion então revogada pelo governo.
Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned custom of the Kyoto Gion Festival, and by doing so, bring together the warring clans and rampa...