Born in 14th-century Japan into a life of acting and dance with a traveling theater troupe, 12-year-old Oniyasha faces one problem: he doesn't know the point of any of it. Why must I step with the left foot here instead of the right? Why is one performance good and another bad? Why do people dance at all? It all seems perfectly arbitrary, until a chance encounter in a run-down shack sets him on a path to revolutionizing the art form and influencing much of Japanese culture to come. This fictionalized account of the early life of Zeami Motokiyo (Oniyasha), the founder of modern Noh theater—the world's oldest surviving theater art—vividly brings to life a man far ahead of his time during one of Japan's most culturally and socially vibrant eras.