1927, Nanjing. Xu Jingnian, the son of a banker, was ordered to rescue left-wing activist Xie Fanxuan, and the two reached their first contract in a pool of blood. In the next twenty-two years, they went from rivals to partners, from confidants to strangers, and their identities were repeatedly reversed in the historical torrent of the Jinan Massacre, the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, the currency reform, the fall of the isolated island, and the collapse of the gold yuan notes - one used finance as a blade to protect the national industrial fire, and the other used pen and ink as a gun to devote himself to saving the nation. In 1949, on the eve of the liberation of Shanghai, bankrupt bankers and out-of-power revolutionaries had a final long conversation on the Huangpu River, and finally admitted that they had never truly walked together, but had always been each other's most honest mirror. This is an epic about choice and price. Two men burned in the ashes and witnessed and participated in the birth of modern China in their own ways.
Intention: dreaming