Wang Rong-yu

Spirit medium Shih Han traverses the Bardo to guide a wandering soul, discovering a chilling truth: the elder ordered his son Wei to freeze his corpse for pension money, trapping his spirit in a cycle of ascending and descending. In helping the spirit break free from this sacrificial attachment, Shih Han also finds the path to heal his own unresolved past.

1961, post-war Taiwan. Ma Shuisheng, the eldest son of the Ma family, is forced to sell the family's ancestral land to purchase morphine for his ailing parents, providing them relief from pain. Eventually, Shuisheng faces a heart-wrenching decision between their last piece of farmland and his newborn child.

An epic tale of love and sacrifice unfolds in an era of turmoil. The time is 1943. Drawn together by their shared ideals, rebellious girl Chiu Hsueh and gifted student Li Chun-Hsien fall in love and marry, but they are forced apart by the February 28 Incident. Chun-Hsien is exiled to Korea, while Chiu Hsueh and their daughter must live under concealed identities during the White Terror. After several decades, a letter from Korea reveals long-hidden secrets. In this turbulent age of chaos, the untold stories of two generations and three households recount a tale of unfailing love and selfless sacrifice.