At the end of the 19th century, an extraordinary woman grew up in Shaoxing, a water town in the south of the Yangtze River. She was the daughter of Qiu Shounan, the former governor of Fujian. Her father's concern for the country and the people infected her since childhood. In the days that followed, Qiu Jin always opposed feudal ethics, pursued equality between men and women, and had the country and the people in her heart. In addition, Qiu Jin (played by Huang Yi) was a martial arts master and well-read, but she was powerless to change the status quo in China at that time. Since the failure of the Opium War, the corrupt Qing government has signed numerous unequal treaties with the powers that have lost power and humiliated the country, and the ancient Chinese land has become a fat sheep to be slaughtered. The failed marriage and the worry about the fate of the motherland made Qiu Jin finally break out of the cage. She went to Japan to study, during which time she met like-minded friends such as Xu Xilin and Chen Tianhua. Their fate will rise and fall with the torrent of troubled times...