2025 Marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War.
Lin Xia discovered a mutilated diary while sorting out her grandfather's belongings, uncovering a dusty past of the Anti-Japanese War. Through clues in the archives and archaeological discoveries in the Three Gorges, she gradually pieced together the truth about her grandfather's desperate struggle to protect cultural relics in 1945 with Zhou Huaijin, a girl from Jinling University. From the mottled city walls of Nanjing to the turbid waters of the Three Gorges, yellowed manuscripts, bronze sword frames and half a ginkgo leaf connect a dialogue across time and space that spans eighty years. The protection of cultural relics during the war, the unfinished connection code, and the secret mission that sank to the bottom of the river were finally revealed to the light under the witness of modern archaeology. The rusty relics not only carry the pain of history, but also tell the story of the stubbornness of cultural inheritance and the hard-won peace of the times.
Purpose: commemorate the martyrs