A little girl celebrates the Chinese Moon Festival with her parents, who tell her three legends about the moon while they eat mooncakes and drink tea.

A martial artist/doctor steals from the crooked authorities as a masked thief to give to the poor while another martial artist/doctor is forced to hunt him down. But a major threat unites them as a dominant and traitorous shaolin monk takes over the authorities.

In a desperate and unjust land, where government corruption rules the day, only one man, known as the Iron Monkey, has the courage to challenge the system and fight back. Under the shadow of night, in the silence before dawn, he fights to give hope to the poor and the oppressed. Although no one knows his name or where he comes from, his heroism makes him a living legend to the people and a wanted man to the powers that be.