A poor but noble-blooded Chinese man seeks glory by inadvertently joining the English war effort in WWI. He works as a trench-digger, but his ambition leads him to take up arms during a battle, inspiring his fellow trench-diggers to fight with him.

For one man, the world turns upside down when his girlfriend breaks up with him, and for everybody else, the world literally turns upside down in a deadly, catastrophic reversal of gravity.