In 1937, the Anti-Japanese War broke out suddenly, and the mountains and rivers were in turmoil.
Chen Yan, a scholar from Wuxi, was originally an ordinary surveying and mapping technician, but at the most critical moment of the country, he was ordered to go to western Yunnan to survey the lifeline of life and death - the Burma Highway.
The road ahead was full of miasma, mist, cliffs and rapids. He used his ruler as his pen and his steps as his ink in the mountains and fields, trying to draw a feasible thoroughfare through the dangerous mountains and rivers.
Everyone thought that Su Wan would stay in Jiangnan and guard his homeland, waiting for him to return alone.
But she put down her chalk, picked up her luggage, and resolutely followed him into the war.
One is measuring the road in western Yunnan, and the other is staying by his side.
We are no longer far apart, but we are working side by side.
They take drawings as their ambition and life and death as their companions,
In the chaotic years, he walked a silent and determined life path.
This is two ordinary people walking together in troubled times.
In addition, 200,000 people from western Yunnan carved mountains with their flesh and blood,
The innocent son of Nanyang traveled thousands of miles to return to his country and face the disaster.
A generation of Chinese people have a backbone that refuses to be broken in the wind and rain.
