Synopsis
In a village legend has it that the scourge of leprosy is caused by the fish that cries in the lake. Only a man with five sons and five females can kill him. A man once succeeded in having ten children, but his wife, after giving birth to the tenth son, while on the lake was about to perform the rite, gave birth to an eleventh. The man killed his wife and threw away his eldest son, Tang Primo, because he intended to save the last, Tang the Eleventh. Thirty years later Tang Primo is the village fortune teller; the minor, however, lives elsewhere with the pregnant wife of the tenth child. When leprosy begins to reap new victims, the prophet prophesies that only Tang the Eleventh will save the village. Making him believe that even Tang Primo is ill, the inhabitants convince his brother to return to the village with his family to fulfill the prophecy.