Women soldiers of the Volunteer Army battle the Japanese in Northeast China in 1936.
Based on Zhou Keqin's excellent novel, Xu Mao and His Daughters weaves a story about the life and sufferings of Xu Mao, an aging peasant and his four daughters in the countryside during the Cultural Revolution. They struggle to make ends meet since his wife's death. Preoccupied with worries, he loses touch with his maturing daughters. It takes the stubborn but kindly intervention of a woman making a governmental inspection tour to cause father and daughters to appreciate their loving family.
It is a story about the Chinese police who intelligently and bravely fight with the cooperation of the factory's Party Committee and the masses, against the spies, who steal the navy's equipment "Hunting No.99".
