After Zhao Zigang, the previous First Secretary sent to lead poverty alleviation, dies unexpectedly, Hao Dayong, a young military-to-civilian transfer cadre from a provincial department, is called upon to take his place as First Secretary of Mahugou Village in Maershan Township, Qingshan County, a revolutionary base area. As soon as he arrives at the township Party committee, he encounters villagers from Mahugou carrying a coffin in a petition protest. Hao Dayong kneels and kowtows to Gao Jiancai’s elderly father, who has lost his son, moving the villagers. With the support of the people, led by Gao Mingyuan, Hao Dayong leads the village’s young people in a courageous fight against criminal gangs, foils various plots against him, and ultimately transforms the village through the development of red tourism, lifting its people out of poverty and onto the road to prosperity.
