Duan uses his spine to measure the fate of the country in a thirty-year epic, a life-and-death journey to find the original intention in the maze of power.
On a blizzard night in the Great Northern Wilderness in 1968, Lin Weidong, who was criticized for being a "Black Category", snatched half a volume of "Das Kapital" from the book-burning fire, and his left ear was frozen into a permanent scar; Su Jing, a Shanghai girl, rescued the entire team while translating a newspaper into Russian at the border station, but lost the ticket stub of "Primrose" left by her first love who died for her. When the quota for returning to the city is replaced, the blood guarantee certificate is seized, and the introduction of foreign investment is accused of betraying the country - they know better than anyone else: what this land needs is not a saint, but a green bone that can take root in the frozen soil.
From the bullpen of the Cultural Revolution to the construction site of the special economic zone, from the vortex of the dual-track price system to the front line of the Asian financial crisis, Lin Weidong guarded the fire of reform in the quagmire of power and conspiracy, while Su Jing used the scalpel of rationality to dissect the lesions of the times. And their opponent Chen Zhijian, the veteran who locked the military competition medals in a drawer, is betting his life's faith on the battlefield where "order is above all else"...
When the restructuring of state-owned enterprises hit the wave of layoffs, when Hong Kong returned to China and fireworks illuminated breast cancer medical records, when the 30-year-old cane propped up dilapidated buildings during the Wenchuan earthquake - everything that cannot be broken will eventually be engraved into the bones of history with blood, fire, and waves of genetically modified wheat floating all over the sky.
