When his father was critically ill, Wang Huajun, who hadn't returned home for a long time, rushed to Xiangyang. On the high speed train, Wang Huajun had a dream, the emotional story of water and fire between father and son, and the impulsive and repressed youthful time, one scene after another reappeared. Farewell to his father, accompanied by his mother to take a break from the day, Wang Huajun attended a classmate reunion, after a gap of 18 years, classmates and the whole city of the great changes that occurred, to Wang Huajun caused a strong impact. He developed a sense of fantasy and felt like a foreign guest.

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.