Dark clouds loom over the city, threatening to bring it down. From 1928 to 1938, swept along by the tides of the times, the Su family, wealthy merchants in Jincheng, suffered through love and hatred. When the nest is overturned, no egg remains unbroken. Their once-happy days and ordinary lives were shattered. Amid the turmoil, each person made different choices about love and the course of their life. The eggs in the nest were all smashed, each in its own way: for country and family, for personal gain, for love. Whatever went wrong, the war was to blame.