At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Chen Shanhe, a young man from Kaiping, Guangdong, was forced to travel to Southeast Asia to make a living because of his family's financial difficulties. In Penang, he met Lin Mingyue, the daughter of a wealthy local Nyonya businessman. The two got to know each other in the coconut wind and banana rain, but their relationship was bumpy due to their disparity in status, family grievances and cultural differences. Facing the oppression of the British colonists, the obstruction of their families and the tide of the times, they guarded their love with courage and wisdom, and finally took root in Nanyang, witnessing the epic struggle of a generation of Chinese.
