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January 1954.

The village of Fou Yu, northeastern China.

Tai Chuanji stumbles as armed communist soldiers march him into an open-air theatre.

He feels himself forced forward again, this time with the tip of a bayonet fixed to a soldier's gun.

Yet Tai is himself a communist soldier.

He fought for China in the Korean War.

He was captured by the Americans and spent two years in a US prisoner of war camp. A year ago, he was finally returned

to China. He expected to be treated as a hero, but instead, with no explanation, he was put in

another internment camp. This time, a Chinese one where food rations were meager and conditions were

worse.

Tye's broad nose and thick black hair seemed to overwhelm his now gaunt face and body.

All his requests for information or explanations have been stonewalled, but now he and the others

from the internment camp have been brought here. He wonders if they are finally

to learn their fates. The prisoners line up in the theatre's paved courtyard and watch a communist

official walk onto the stage in front of them. One of the other prisoners steps forward and

stamps his worn leather boots together in military fashion.

Yes, sir. For the crime of praising our enemies while a prisoner in Korea,

you are dishonorably discharged from the People's Liberation Army.

The prisoner looks stunned as soldiers surround him and escort him out of the theatre.

Tai feels a stab of dread.

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