An idealistic youth moves to the countryside in search of a purer, more honest society, but finds injustice even in his remote village.
An underground CPC telegrapher, Li Xia, fights against the Japanese enemy and dies before the eve of Shanghai's liberation in 1939.
The story of a love which develops unknowingly between step-brother and step-sister in a wealthy, respectable family in turn-of-the-century China.
