During the War of Resistance Against Japan, a CCP army unit guarding the southwest border follows what is ostensibly a trading caravan and discovers that these traders are actually smuggling arms and spy equipment to Chiang Kai-shek and his American allies.

Set in the 1950s, the PLA exterminates residual bandits in the Yunwushan Mountain.

Detectives investigate the death of a clerk, murdered before his wedding

Yang Min, a county party committee secretary, goes against superstition and leads a prospecting team to Baoshan to look for iron ore.