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During the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, a postman poses as a photo developer, helping Japanese forces while secretly sheltering Chinese refugees. He later risks his life evacuating them and revealing evidence of the atrocities.

A memorial service for Fei Ke brings together female journalist He Shan and four strangers who are invited. They all share undisclosed pasts with Fei Ke, but they discover that the Fei Ke they knew is not the same person. Who is Fei Ke really? As they look back, the group gradually uncovers the truth about Fei Ke.

In order to treat his 6-year-old son suffering from asthma, Wu Hai's friend Zhong Zhenjiang encourages him to get deliberately acquainted with Miaomiao. She is a network anchor who is also at the bottom and determined to brew a marriage scam with ulterior motives..

The couple of Ma Xiao, a foreign correspondent, and Pan Wenjia, a volunteer doctor, accompanied engineer Miao Feng on a trip to the suburbs to repair a base station. During the trip, the local situation suddenly changed and the three were kidnapped by an extremist organisation. While in prison, they met Zhou Weijie, an overseas Chinese businessman. In order to find a chance of survival, they embarked on a journey of escape in the midst of barbaric warfare and chaos.

The film consists of five story units: "Concert on the Clouds", "The Enemy and Enmity of the Square", "Welcome to Jina Village", "Calm Down", and "Sunset Red Scout". It tells the struggle of ordinary characters in the new era to pursue a better life. The story shows the country’s development and progress, people’s livelihood changes, and the people’s sense of gain, happiness, and security.

Deokjun is a Korean-Chinese who came to Korea to earn money. He does menial jobs that have never been done in China, but things don't go as well as he hoped. In the end, he takes hostages in the supermarket, and the owner's daughter Jeong-in, who visits the supermarket, becomes hostage in place of her mother and grandmother. Jeong-eun is heartbroken by Deok-joon's difficult story, but her own situation is not good as she is a child born from a relationship with her immature boyfriend. (2014 18th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival)

After graduating from the academy in 2009, his thesis short film Helong Chuangang stood out and went on to win numerous domestic and international short film awards. He later made two more acclaimed shorts, Chao Zhulang (“Tide Chasing Waves”) and I’m Not Brave, the latter of which brought him to the attention of director Ning Hao.

A five-year hostage crisis at sea—the longest maritime kidnapping in history—explores the psychological battle between captives and pirates, revealing human resilience in extreme adversity. Through struggle and redemption, they ultimately find a chance to rebuild their lives.