In the autumn of the 26th year of the Republic of China, in the morning fog at Qingpingdu, a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, the oars of a black-topped boat cut through not only the river water, but also the haze of the impending war. Villager Zhang Shouyi originally only wanted to guard the rice fields with his wife and children, but due to the passing of Japanese reconnaissance planes, Liu San's report, and the approaching crisis of massacre of the village, he transformed from a fearful farmer to a guerrilla backbone; his wife Lin Xiulian used herbs as a blade, hiding the tenacity of a doctor in saving lives and healing the wounded; young Zhang Mingyuan, carrying "On Protracted War" and bullet casings, grew from a reckless student to an intelligence transmitter.
Shen Huaian of the fake police station endured humiliation and lurked, Japanese translator Chen Mo awakened between conscience and coercion, and gambler Liu San sacrificed his life to atone for his sins - these ordinary people weaved a network of "national resistance" on the forked roads of the reed marshes, the hidden grids of the cloth village, and the oil lamps of the caves. When the roar of the motorboat breaks the tranquility of the water town, and when the fire engulfs the old locust trees and rice fields, they use their bravery after cowardice and redemption after betrayal to interpret that "there are no born heroes, only Chinese people who refuse to bow their heads." Let the water crossed by Qingping carry the unyielding story and flow quietly through the years.
