Synopsis of "A Dream of Wind and Rain"
Shanghai, 1937. Agent Zhang Haisheng returns from Nanjing with a list of underground Red agents, only to discover that his immediate superior, Xu Zhiyuan, has defected to the enemy. During an assassination attempt, he is rescued by Zhuang Qimeng, the owner of a bookstore. Gentle on the surface, Zhuang Qimeng is in fact a key Red contact in Shanghai. From mutual suspicion to trust, the two struggle amid encircling Japanese and puppet-government agents to move a list that holds countless lives in the balance.
Meanwhile, Military Statistics Bureau agent Han Zheyi is ordered to approach Xu Yunzheng, a legendary figure who once dominated the era but now lives quietly among ordinary people. Xu Yunzheng holds the secret to the treasure left behind by Yuan Shikai, making him the focus of a struggle among all sides. The Japanese, the Military Statistics Bureau, and the Reds clash in Shanghai, a city under siege.
Zhou Zhiyun is arrested and bites through her tongue in the basement, choosing death over surrender. The interpreter Jin’s brutality, Yamamoto Masao’s sinister nature, Okamoto Nobuzawa’s inscrutability… Every character fights to survive in the mire of the times. But the real storm only begins when the ammunition depot at the Hongkou Military Police Headquarters explodes.
This is a war without gunfire. Everyone is playing chess, and everyone is also a chess piece. When trust becomes the greatest luxury, and betrayal lies a hair’s breadth from loyalty, who can make it out of this city battered by wind and rain alive?
Espionage · Republican era · Mystery · Ensemble cast. When the storm is coming, no one can stand apart.
