The King of Dreams is dead - long live the King of Dreams! And now, old gods, friends, and foes gather to pay their last respects and remember him at the strangest wake of all time. The echoes of this death resonate: they reach a man who does not want to die and a Chinese sage whose path into exile leads him through a desert of dreams. And at the end of his life, William Shakespeare fulfills his part of a very unusual agreement.