A man stays alone with his children in a half demolished house in the middle of a desolate field. His wife has just been killed by a grenade in a military battle. He is expecting a new attack. Instead a wandering caravan called Circus Fantasticus stops by the house. They bring along the dying director of the circus. Is it possible for anything beautiful to happen in a landscape of war and death? Can life go on? Is it possible to realize that death does not exist?

The Zunyi Conference was a meeting of the Communist Party of China in January 1935 where Mao Zedong become the leader of the Communist Party. Film tells a story about Red Army soldiers who organized multiple lines of defense around Zunyi to block the Kuomintang Central Army from capturing Xiangjiang River and Zunyi.The Red Army's First Red Division and the Red Second Regiment were ordered to station at the Yangjiao front line in Qijiang to guard the Sichuan warlord troops, and killed the pioneer troops of the Sichuan Army