In the midsummer of 1988, a military enlistment notice turned into cold handcuffs, and top student Li Mingyu went from being a proud man to a prisoner overnight. In the purgatory-like cell, he completed his transformation from boy to man. After being released from prison, he faced a more dangerous world. He led his brothers to fight tenaciously, and in the torrent of the times, he used his fists, wisdom and morality to break out of the siege and write the rules of survival.