This story was set near a dam in Taiwan years ago. Two Chinese children grew up together and were got married. The boy: Lin I-kwang. The girl: Chou Wen-ying. After the sino-Japanese War broke out in 1937, the Japanese army wished to expand the power plant near the dam, and to remove a section of a Chinese graveyard. The fathers of Lin and Chou objected, thus offended the Japanese and were killed. Lin I-kwang escaped to the Chinese mainland to join forces fighting against the Japanese, leaving behind his young wife. As World War Ⅱ spread to through Southeast Asia, the Japanese drafted of many Chinese in Taiwan, even senior high school students were included. Seeking to possess Mrs. Lin, who also was a teacher, the Japanese captain hinted that he had the power to exclude her class from conscription. Mrs. Lin was induced to yield herself to the captain for the sake of her students. As a result, she was looked down upon and discriminated against by all the town's folks. Her mother-in-law hanged herself in shame. And Mrs. Lin drowned herself in the river at the dam. The truth finally came out as the conscription began. People walked to the dam silently and dropped plum blossoms in the water for Mrs. Lin's memorial.
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