It is 1944. Mo Dexian is a craftsman who fled the fall of Nanjing with his family and found a quiet life in the mountain town of Gezhi. Then a small Japanese reconnaissance squad stumbles into the town and begins killing. Mo Dexian is not a soldier. Neither is anyone else in Gezhi. But they are cornered…and they slowly rise.
A quirky internet star, a pair of retired gangsters, and the black sheep of a prolific family of herbalists are a few of the oddball tenants that call the dilapidated apartments of Humble Grove home. Fearful of being locked out by a ruthless property developer with his eye on the... Read all