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影片的第一个镜头：清晨，烟雨濛濛的江南，破旧的住宅楼下，一位老人在打太极拳。随后，这位83岁的老人面对镜头开始讲述他一生的经历。小学时中共地下党音乐老师对他影响很大，大学时在上海秘密加入中共地下党，并打入汪伪政府的特务组织。解放南京时他是渡江部队35军的政委。1949年后在历次政治运动中遭到迫害，当年同为中共地下党的妻子在反右运动中被迫害致死，他本人在文革期间多次被批斗，一条腿被打残，一人带着三个女儿终身不曾再婚。改革开发以后，他当了杭州某大学的校长。现在他的生活就是看书、唱歌和练气功。

First scene: dawn, the foggy sub-Yangtze region, an old man practices Tai Chi in the shadow of worn-down residential buildings. Soon this 83-year-old man begins narrating his life experience to the camera. When he was in primary school his music school teacher from the communist party greatly influenced him. In college he infiltrated the provisional Japanese puppet government. In the civil war he served in the 35th platoon of the communist army during the historic crossing of the Yangtze river and taking of the capital city Nanjing. During the chaotic post-1949 political movements, his wife was killed by anti-reactionaries. He himself was repeatedly criticized and punished during the Cultural Revolution, being blinded in one eye and having to care for his three daughters alone his whole life (he never re-married). After political and economic reforms, he became the principal of a university in Hangzhou. Now his life is reading, singing, and practicing Qigong.