Takashima Shinichi

1937 yılında Çin'de, ikinci Çin-Japon savaşı sırasında, bir cenaze, bir rahip, John defin hazırlamak için Nanjing'deki Katolik kilisesine gelir. Vardıklarında kendisini yalnız yetişkin manastır kız öğrencileri ve Yakın bir yerde genelev fahişelerden oluşan bir grup arasında bulur. Her iki grubun arasında kendini istemediği bir pozisyonda bulsada, işgalci Japon ordusunun dehşet koruyucusu, fedakarlık ve onurun anlamını keşfeder.

1937 'de Şangay'da geçen hikayede Çin'deki Japon işgalini takip etmekle görevli bir gazetecinin yaşadıkları aktarılacak. Nanjing katliamına tanık olan gazeteci 50 den fazla yetimin kurtarabilmek için büyük savaşverecektir.

World War II: a cholera epidemic ravages the streets of Beijing. A crack team of Chinese intelligence agents kidnap a Japanese general and biochemist who may hold the antidote.

In 1937, the Japanese imperialists launched a brutal war of aggression against China. Xu Tian was a color-blind accountant in Shanghai with military training who decided to stay close to his mother after the death of his father. After an accident involving a group of patriots led by a friend of his late father, he was touched by the patriotic spirit. He used his sharp mind to help the patriots transporting important materials, which also drew the attention of Japanese occupying the city to himself. During this period, he befriended Jin, a conman-turned-businessman and Tielin, a police officer working in the Shanghai French Concession. At the same time, pharmacist Tian Dan rented a room in Xu's house after losing her parents in an incident Xu was deeply involved. On the backdrop of the national crisis, people were living their intertwined lives with their own agenda, be it for revenge, for duty, for self-interest, or for ideology.