 Yankie director Don Tyler (Sutherland) faces mounting insecurity and declining health while on location in Beijing, so his assistant (Kwan) hires down-and-out camerman YoYo (Ge) to take the reins. Scrambling, studio boss (Mazursky) sells the sagging picture to a Japanese media company. But YoYo is determined to upstage the whole production by granting the director s wish to have a grand "comedy funeral". To raise the money for it, he auctions off advertising and sponsorships for the funeral to companies around the world. But wait...is Don getting better?