Lin Huaisang is a witness forgotten by time. An accident threw him from the laboratory in 2022 into the smoke of the Opium War in 1840. Carrying a camera that never ran out of power, an endless notebook, and a pen with bullet marks left by his grandfather, he became a lonely gazer of the long suffering.
From the artillery fire at Humen to the gunfire of Xinhai, from the snow-capped mountains of the Long March to the ruins of Nanjing, and then to the cheers at the founding ceremony, he walked through every inch of the scorching land in modern history. The lens is the only weapon, and the record is the cage of fate. He knows all endings, but cannot change any beginning. He can only salvage those faces and names that are about to be forgotten in the torrent of fate.
This is an epic written in one hundred years of solitude. Underneath the gleaming scrolls of the times, there surges the silent roar of a trapped beast - about how a time traveler plays with history, knowing all the absurdities of joys and sorrows, but still chooses to love, remember and live in the most violent way.
Where the mountains and rivers are broken, he uses his gaze as salary; when the night is coming to an end, he uses memory as fire. When the three thousand photos were finally revealed, those frozen moments all told: The heaviest witness is the full courage of a nation to turn its back on the darkness and face the light.
