Once upon a time, there was a strange black cat in a long trenchcoat with no friends, no home, and no purpose in life. However, one day, an encounter with a scarecrow sets the black cat off on a mysterious quest to answer a single question: What is the most precious thing in the world?

All the inventiveness of Bi Gan—the Chinese cineaste best known for an epic with an astonishing hour-long take—is channeled into this spellbinding short. Unfurling from a feline point-of-view, this surrealist trick film draws from the realm of dreams and is brimming with technical magic.