No matter how hard you try, you can't escape your fate. If that trip to Yunnan hadn't been part of my destiny, would I have turned into someone so unrecognizable? ... How did the beautiful young woman who could have had a wonderful life become the Nightingale, dragged down an endless abyss by one wrong turn after another? ... On a rugged mountain road, two groups are locked in a firefight. A terrified man drags a disheveled woman along as they flee in a panic, dodging stray bullets. This chaotic place is Wa State, home to one of the largest Chinese communities in Myanmar.