September 1977. Maria Callas, a world-famous opera diva in early retirement, lives in a luxurious Parisian apartment with two poodles, a cook and a butler. The job of the first, in addition to cooking, is to give Maria compliments. The second moves a huge grand piano around the house for her from morning to night, counts her pills, picks her up from restaurants and tries to convince her to talk to a specialist instead of hallucinations.

Emperor Philippa Georgiou joins a secret Starfleet unit tasked with protecting the United Federation of Planets and faces the sins of the past.

Yuangong, the deacon, opened the shrine and exposed the holy book to the human world. He also carved the contents of the book on the stone wall of white cloud cave in the mountains. He is now punished to guard the book for life by the jade emperor for breaking heaven's law and betraying the holy secret to human. In order to pass this holy book to human beings, he would have to get by the antagonist fox.