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In a time of war, when occupation turns to genocide, one woman choose resistance over death and takes on the empire of Japan.

32nd generation Chinese Shaolin Fighting Monk Li Bao Xin must immigrate to New York City to look after young Janie, his six-year-old niece. Struggling to make a new life, Li Bao will face challenges that test his character more than his physical strength. Through it all, his mind remains filled with the heroic stories of the Shaolin Temple, a great tradition that defines him, but also makes his assimilation to western culture more difficult. While in China he was a venerated master, in America he is nobody. To make a life for him and Janie, Li Bao must contend with a modern society, where his great fighting skills and heroic lineage have little meaning. He will have to decide which is more important, his dreams or his family.

In modern day New York City a ninety eight year old women lies helpless on her death bed. As her granddaughter begins to take on the chores of cleaning the apartment, she comes upon a story that her grandmother had been writing. It is the story of Blooming Flowers. The account is from her younger days as a journalist of her 1935 trip to a remote village hidden along the border of China and Cambodia. It is a place where mysticism and the spiritual unknown weave the lives of the village's inhabitants into a conflict amongst themselves over the secretive past of the land. Unable to stop reading her grandmother's journal she begins to notice strange happenings around her as the grandmother begins to repeat "He is here, he is here, he is here". Who has come for the grandmother, and what is the connection to the spiritual and destructive powers from the Village decades ago?