Logline: Confront a person with the danger of death, and he will fight to live. –Sunzi (400-460)
It is September 7, 1970 in a train station crowded with intellectuals, teachers, army generals, and artists—scorned by Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution in China—on their way to do hard labor in a remote north-western province. This is the story of one man, once a respected teacher and translator of English, and how his knowledge of a language other than his own saved him from an unfortunate fate.