The play tells the story of the period from 1938 to 1944 when Japan invaded China and shattered the country. Under the leadership and promotion of the Communist Party of China, a large number of patriotic and progressive cultural figures such as Guo Moruo, Xia Yan, Tian Han, Ba Jin, Liu Yazi, Tao Xingzhi, Xu Beihong, Mao Dun, and Ouyang Yuqian gathered in Guilin.Shuijian uses the pen as a gun and the stage as a battlefield. Through a series of cultural movements such as journalism, literature, drama, music, and art, he promotes the anti-Japanese national united front, transforms exile and revival, hardship and responsibility, survival and death, personal emotions and national feelings, etc. into the Great Wall of national culture to resist foreign aggression, and carries out the story of a "Cultural War of Resistance" without gunpowder.
