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.

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.