The husband lost contact, the war blocked the river, and the Japanese invaders blocked it - a woman's journey to find her husband.
On the eve of the fall of Shanghai, Shen Bichu received the last letter from her husband Shen Zhixing from Chongqing. After that, there was no news.
She pawned her dowry bracelet and abandoned her stable life. With the help of the dancing queen, she hid in a cargo ship carrying military supplies and sailed up the Yangtze River. The checkpoints in Wuhu, the patrol boats in Jiujiang, the gang leaders in Hankou... Every step may be the end. And all she carries with her is a letter that has been touched hundreds of times, and the secret that cannot be discovered in the midsole of her shoe.
But what she didn't know was that the "Material Dispatch Committee" where her husband worked was far from just a clerical department. Little did she know that when she finally arrived in Chongqing after all the hardships, what awaited her was not a reunion, but an even bigger storm.
He promised her that she would "live up to her expectations in this life", but in troubled times, how long can a promise last?
