1940, Guilin.
The reputation of one of the world's most beautiful mountains and rivers has now been cast into a cloud of gray by the swirling war reports and the crowds of people seeking refuge.
However, abnormal prosperity also breeds here.
Major theater companies took to the stage in the city, playing and singing every night, as if they wanted to use their last noise to drown out the rumbling artillery fire in the distance.
There were no empty seats in the Lijiang Theater.
On the stage, the annual drama "Tears of Mountains and Rivers" is reaching its climax.
The heroine, dressed in plain clothes, knelt down in the center of the stage, which symbolized the scorched earth, crying and accusing the atrocities of the invaders.
The audience burst into applause, and countless viewers wiped away tears.
