From 1938 to 1945, a county in North China.
Four ordinary people who don't know each other - Xiao Lang, a mute hunter in the forest, Tang Weizhen, a "traitor" who sells medicinal materials, Zhao Tiechui, a rural blacksmith, and Lao Liang, a grocery store owner - each struggle to survive in the torrent of the Anti-Japanese War. Their fates were quietly woven together through the cargo load of a traveling peddler, the butcher knife of a Japanese officer, and the sacrifice of an underground party member.
Eight years of resistance and four years of ambush. When the Japanese army launched the final madness of "complete rural clearing", the four people gathered together for the first time under the guidance of the organization. They were surprised to find that they were already connected to each other through invisible threads - the knife made by Tie Hammer saved Xiao Lang's life, the medicine collected by Xiao Lang passed through Lao Liang's hands and saved the wounded guerrillas, the information passed by Lao Liang saved Tang Weizhen from disaster, and the medicine sent by Tang Weizhen saved Tie Hammer's fellow villagers.
He is mute and the deadliest hunter in the mountains and forests.
He is a traitor and a pretender who secretly delivers information.
He is a blacksmith and a pioneer in forging weapons in the fire.
He is the shopkeeper and the watchman who has been waiting for eight years to deliver the code.
They have never met each other, but they are on the same land and fighting the same enemy in their own way.
Realizing that life and death depended on each other, the four little people used their own methods - hunting, disguise, forging, and watching - to complete a collective hunt for the invaders on the same land.
This is an anti-war epic about "unknown people".
