In the twenty-sixth year of the Republic of China, Shen Jingyan, a girl from Peking, met two men in a winter snow - one was her childhood sweetheart fiancé Lu Huaijin, a famous doctor in Beijing; the other was Gu Mingyuan, a student at Yenching University who was carrying a secret and was actually an underground member of the Chinese Communist Party.
An old dream guarding a thousand-year-old ancient capital, and a distant place running towards the unknown dawn. And she was swept up by the torrent of the times, from Peking to Shanghai, from Chongqing to Yan'an, witnessing the collapse of the old world and the birth of the new world.
In the flames of war and smoke, the fate of the three people has been entangled for fifteen years. Some people sacrifice for their beliefs, some wait for love, and some make difficult choices in the cracks of the times. When the five-star red flag was raised in Tiananmen Square in 1949, they discovered that some farewells have become eternal farewells, some waiting has led to reunions, and some old dreams are destined to remain in that distant era.
This is a story about love, faith and choice. In the tide of history, personal love, hatred and resentment are as small as grains of sand, but they are also the most authentic footnotes of that era.
