Lin Kong, a man living in the apocalypse, finds himself possessing a dinosaur after it hatches from a fossilized egg he had boiled. To his surprise, the dinosaur can communicate with him through eye contact and calls him "daddy."
However, Lin Kong is uninterested in raising a dinosaur and waits for it to starve to death. But when the dinosaur becomes increasingly hungry and irritable, Lin Kong must figure out how to feed it. With his family's help, they somehow devise a plan to find meat for the dinosaur, albeit a plan indeed...
Despite his reluctance to raise the dinosaur, Lin Kong begins to bond with the creature and is forced to decide about its fate; unbeknownst, his very own fate was bound to this very decision!