Three-and-a-half-year-old An An, wearing a red cotton jacket, squatted under the wall of the Martyrs Cemetery and dug mud. She dug out a finger bone, put it to her ear and said, "Uncle said there are people on the hillside. They have been waiting in line for a long time."
Gravekeeper Zhou Weiguo followed the silent little girl and found the remains buried for seventy years under the barren slope. The national "Heroes Returning Home" project team followed, and archaeologist Lin Qing and retired soldier Shen Tuo joined the team. An An can touch the soil with her palms and hear the last sounds of the deceased - hunger, cold, and missing her mother. Every time she "listened", she had a fever and cried, but she never refused.
From Qingshi Ridge to Xueling Pass, from the island to the Gobi, a child holds the hand of the entire country and brings home the loyal bones scattered in the mountains and rivers one by one.
Wherever the wind chimes ring, they are all on their way home.
