In the 1930s, a female student named Hiro (Nanako Matsushima) who lived in Saga resolutely chose to become a military nurse. After arduous training, she received a recruitment notice as she wished when she graduated, so she went to the distant Manchuria with a group of women with lofty ideals. Unexpectedly, the cruelty of reality soon shattered her ideals. She returned to her motherland in frustration for a time, and then returned to Manchuria like a bird out of a cage, and married Nakagawa Wataru (Hidetoshi Nishijima) of the pioneer group and had children. Not long after, the Marco Polo Bridge Incident broke out and the Sino-Japanese War officially started. The small family was torn apart by the claws of war. Nakagawa enlisted in the army, and Hiro was busy nursing the wounded all day long, while their children left their parents prematurely and tasted the hardships of the world. Hiro never thought that this was such a cruel and long separation of life and death...