Ruimin Tong

Zhou's husband died in the Cultural Revolution. She lived arduously with her only son. Lo, a kind postman, helped her during her hardest time.

The founding of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921.

Two underground CPC love each other, but never say it until they are betrayed by a traitor and executed by the enemy.

Wenxiang is sent away to the mountains to focus on his studies. He stays in a nunnery, with which his family has a long history, and encounters a strange girl.

Based on the old tale of Du Shiniang, a courtesan who falls in love with a student.