In 1942, the Yangtze River was completely closed to navigation.
The Japanese army locked the river with iron boats, and the pseudo-marine police blocked the crossing. The thousands of miles of waterway made it difficult to move forward.
Everyone thought that in troubled times, only survival and escape were left on the river.
No one knows that the most humble ship owner hides the last water lifeline of the entire occupied area in Central China.
Chen Dusheng is a man of slick business, greedy for money and precious life, and always smiles and bows his head.
In the eyes of everyone at the dock, he was the meanest little person in troubled times, living on only a few cents of ship's wages.
But the river witnessed everything.
He used the merchant ship as the hull, the bottom as the warehouse, and the turbid waves as the barrier.
The wounded were ferried out late at night, Western medicine was hidden in secret cabins, and secret reports were passed down by running water.
Under the eyes of the Japanese and puppets, they used the humblest businessman's skin to carry the hottest spark of their home and country.
On the shore, the female doctor in the drug store has a hidden edge and relies on him openly and secretly to protect him life and death.
On the water, the captain of the marine police is constantly testing the waters and raising fishing lines.
In the darkness, the invisible inner ghost has been dormant for several years, ruining the route and tearing up the way of survival time and time again.
This is not an elite spy game in a suit bungalow.
This is a silent and fierce battle between ordinary people at the bottom, who dare not show their strength, dare not talk about their beliefs, and dare not leave their names in the turbulent world.
The long night ends, and the mountains and rivers begin to light up.
Thousands of heroes have gone down in history.
Only those who cross the fire on the river are nameless and silent throughout their lives, and they illuminate the mountains and rivers with their bodies.
