In 1942, Xiao Hong (Song Jia), a sick female writer, was trapped in Hong Kong under the Japanese artillery fire. Luo Binji (Zhang Bo), a young writer from Northeast China, accompanied her. Xiao Hong told Luo Binji about her 10-year wandering writing career, as well as her two unusual relationships with writers Xiao Jun (Huang Jue) and Duanmu Hongliang (Wang Renjun), especially her unforgettable emotional experience with Xiao Jun. This female writer, who was born in war, experienced many ups and downs, yearned for love, and was full of charm, deeply moved Luo Binji, but at this time Xiao Hong was already terminally ill. Luo Binji and Duanmu Hongliang, who had returned from outside, sent Xiao Hong to the hospital and accompanied her through the last days of her life...