Back To 1942

Drama

In 1942, China’s war against the Japanese has reached a strategic stalemate. At the same time, Henan province was in the throes of a major drought and locust attack. More than 3 million people starved to death. The Landlord and his family, as well as tenant farmer Xialu and his family are two that joined the millions in the mass exodus from the disaster-stricken area. In the face of the calamity, not only does the KMT government ignore pleas of help from the refugees, they force the Henan provincial government to collect food and supplies from its people for military purposes. Theodore H. White, journalist for the American publication Time Magazine, risks his life to conduct an in-depth investigation of the disaster-stricken area, and finally succeeds in demanding the government to open up its food stores to help the refugees. However, ravaged by both natural and man-made disasters, countless families have been torn asunder.