In 1951, Shen Wang, a 20-year-old son of a Zhoushan fisherman, was involved in the political whirlpool for rescuing an underground party member who was being hunted. His three "friends" - Huang Degui, a young man from the same village, Lu Jingtang, a primary school teacher, and Dong Jishi, a shipping company employee - jointly and falsely accused him of being a "KMT agent" out of their own jealousy, fear and selfish desires.
Shen Wang was secretly arrested during the crackdown campaign in the early days of the founding of New China, and was taken without trial to an isolated desert island in the depths of the East China Sea - Iron Curtain Island. There was a secret prison converted from an abandoned Japanese military fortification. On the eve of his imprisonment, he only had time to ask someone to tell his fiancée, A Qin: "Wait for me, I will come back."
During the fourteen years on the Iron Curtain Island, Shen Wang experienced the whole process from hope to despair to rebirth. He met a mysterious prison cellmate - Lu Hongnian, a former financial tycoon in old Shanghai. Lu Hongnian not only taught him reading and literacy, multiple languages, history and philosophy, but also entrusted him with a huge fortune buried in Hong Kong before his death. In 1965, Shen Wang took advantage of an opportunity to work at sea and successfully escaped from prison and smuggled to Hong Kong.
At this time, Hong Kong was in the golden age of economic development. With Lu Hongnian's legacy, Shen Wang rose rapidly in the business world, assumed the pseudonym Shen Yanyan, and became the head of the mysterious "Iron Curtain Group". Twenty years later, in 1985, China's door to reform and opening up was already open. He returned to his hometown as a Shanghai investor and began a long revenge that spanned three generations and involved four families.
Intention: Suffering can destroy a person, but it can also make a person successful. The key lies in how to face it.