Charlatan Chen Gou broke into Shanghai to find his betrayed lover, and turned from a dock coolie into the third boss of a gang. When the flames of revenge swallowed him up, he was shocked to realize that the second boss of Zhongyi Company had become a traitor, and the Japanese army was about to crush this land. Torn between ambition and conscience, he resolutely put aside his personal grudges and set up a chess game against the Japanese invaders. In the intertwined arena of love and hate, he composed a tragic song of awakening for a hero in troubled times.
