Eight-year-old boy Huang Ming witnessed his mother being killed by a Japanese soldier. His father, Huang Renli, blew up the Japanese arsenal out of hatred for his wife and was chased by the Japanese and thrown into the river. Huang Ming, who suffered from national hatred and family feud, took a boat to Chongqing to escape the war. He lived in Chongqing for many years, married a wife and had a daughter. When his daughter Huang Gelan became an adult, he fell in love with a Japanese young man, Tian Yihe. Huang Ming met his in-laws for the first time; this Japanese rich man was the Japanese soldier who killed his mother... Lin Hua, the son of the Lin family, a wealthy man in Nanjing, who went to Chongqing to escape the war with Huang Ming, and the love entanglement between Lin Wei and the girl next door, He Zhanzi... The story from 1938 to after the reform and opening up.