83-year-old Potter Yu is seen creating ceramic vases using techniques developed during the Koryo Dynasty in Korea a thousand years ago. He works with his sons and creates a hundred at a time, with one featuring a carved pattern of a dragon biting its own tale. They bake them all night in the kiln and in the morning they break into pieces any that are deemed "imperfect." At the end a poem is read over shots of the finished pieces and includes these lines:
"Howe'er, this is a dream of a thousand years, Koryo Celadon/
Hue, oh the hue, casting a shadow in secrecy, the laudable hue"