Based on the novel "In Faraway Mynlunsha" about the events that took place in 1950 on the southern border of the People's Republic of China, where the Tai people live. About the struggle to establish people's power in this remote corner, about the resistance of enemies and saboteurs who tried to turn the population against the People's Liberation Army working group that came to the village to help this previously oppressed and downtrodden people.

1943, the Japanese Army is falling back to the Pacific, leaving only collaborationist troops. Commissar Yang Xiaodong is sent to inflitrate the provincial capital.

Wu Qionghua, a house maid, is abused by a cruel warlord until she joins a troop of women soldiers.

An underground CPC telegrapher, Li Xia, fights against the Japanese enemy and dies before the eve of Shanghai's liberation in 1939.

Set in early 20th century. Yuan Shih-kai is forced by Japan to sign on the twenty-one demands and transfers the possession of Shandong province to Japan from German. General Cai of Yunnan province decides to uprise and lead a punitive expedition against Yuan. A famous courtesan Xiao Feng Xian admires Cai's prestige and is arrested for covering Cai before uprising.

Set in the 14th century, a brewing friendship between the Chinese Emperor Yong Le and the King of Sulu, Paduka Pahala is forged upon the latter's visit to China.