In 1942, drought and locust plagues raged across Henan Province. In the 21st century, Wang Nannan traveled back in time to Chunni, an 18-year-old village girl. After eating all the grass roots and tree bark, her family and fellow villagers fled westward to survive, but their target was Xi'an, but they ended up in Yan'an.
From Xi'an to Yan'an - the rapid growth of the base area, the life and death transformation of the people at the bottom amidst natural and man-made disasters, the blending of individual suffering and the blood and fire of national salvation.
