During the troubled times of the Republic of China, Linjiang City.
An inn called "Yelai" takes in Piaoping, who can't help herself in troubled times.
She is Shen Qinghe. She was once the top prostitute in a brothel, and she redeemed herself from all her troubles. She just wants to stay at the inn and seek a "clean" life for the rest of her life.
He is Chen Shan, who was once a fierce bandit in the village. His rebellion was full of blood. He just wanted to hide in the market and find a "stable" place to establish himself.
In this seemingly ordinary inn, the waiter and the shrewd proprietress each carry their own troubled pasts. Prejudice and attraction, true love and calculation, compete silently in the trivial day and night confrontation. When the glimmer of love tries to illuminate each other's abyss, the shadows of the past follow.
At the same time, greedy police chiefs, female students pursuing their ideals, ignorant girls, gangsters seeking revenge... All kinds of characters took the stage here, and together performed a song of joys and sorrows in the turbulent era.
However, troubled times cannot tolerate simple happiness. When the bloody storm of the past struck again, they tried their best to protect the dignity and warmth, but were eventually ruthlessly crushed by the deeper darkness.
This is an elegy written for ordinary people. In the age of cannibalism, it asks what price love and dignity must pay to survive.
Intent: The tragedy of two souls abandoned by the times, struggling to survive in troubled times, understanding and cherishing each other, but ultimately being swallowed by darkness, deeply explores the dignity of human nature and the power of love. It aims to show that even in the filthiest mud, people's desire for a "clean" life and the protection of true emotions can still burst out with the most dazzling but also the most fragile light. This is not only an indictment of the era of cannibalism, but also a tribute to every ordinary soul who does not succumb to fate and strives to live a "human-like" life.