From the talismans and gunpowder smoke under the walls of Beijing in 1900, to the silent trenches on the Western Front battlefield in 1918; from Luan Jia's hasty flight westward from the Forbidden City, to the fallen double-headed eagle flag in front of the Winter Palace - we will witness how the old world comes to its destined end in a series of gambles mixed with steel, blood and delusion.
