The daughter of the Fu family in Hangzhou returned from France with new ideas.
She met a high-spirited young man, and together they participated in the student movement and opened a night school for civilians. The souls resonated, and the two hearts agreed, thinking that they could walk side by side towards the ideal new world.
But the shackles of the deep house, the class gap, and the endless suffering in troubled times quietly opened a rift between the two. A turmoil claimed the lives of others, the weight of reality weighed on love, and the former confidants gradually became estranged.
While wars are raging, there is also another helpless fate hidden in the deep courtyard of the Fu family.
The second brother is caught between the hot and cold expectations of his parents, and the maid in the house is the only comfort in his gloomy life. But powerful marriages are getting closer, secular family status overwhelms the aspirations of his children, troubles and disasters follow one after another, and his future is also plunged into mist.
The tide of time is rolling in, and all the passionate love and obsession will be tortured by fate in the flames of war.
