This film was shot in april 2000 in some of the provinces of south and south-east China. It describes the growing and making of the best known teas and legends linked to these. The apex of the expedition is the trip, by local means of transport - boats, trains, autobuses and on feet - into the jungle on the frontier of China and Barma in the south of Yunnan, where grows the oldest tea tree in the world, king of the tea trees Cha Shu Wang.

The film describes the different provinces where tea is grown; different manners of production and preparation, as well as the social conditions of the peasants and inhabitants of these regions. The film presents also the history of tea and the legends linked to this famous discovery.

Region and teas described in the film: town of Hang-zhou, tea Long-jin and village of the same name, Dragon's well with miracoulous water, town of Su-zhou, village Dong-shan and tea Pilochung, province Fujian and black teas like oolong, province Guangxi, town of Guiping, monasteries on the West mountain where the Xi-shan cha tea is made, province Yunnan, town of Kunming, the secret peocedure of making the Pu-er tea.