Brij Mohan (36), a hosiery shop owner in a busy Delhi market, desperately wants to change his life. He is fed up of his ball-crusher wife and mounting debts. In order to escape his wretched life, he changes his appearance and adopts a new identity as Amar Sethi, but ends up committing a botched up murder. He runs off with his young girlfriend, hopeful of making a new beginning....。影片讲述第一次世界大战的爆发,对世纪初的中国产生的深远影响:参战之争、民族工业的勃发、14万劳工在“绞肉机”佛兰德斯战壕的日夜、平民教育的初兴、十月革命、公理战胜、巴黎和会、五四运动、科学玄学大讨论。一段对我们今天影响至深的历史,列强夹缝中的弱国外交,触底反弹的民族复兴。一战之前,中国不能称为“国”,只是几千年朝代的延续;中国人还不是“国民”,只是蒙昧的臣民。一战之后,中国民族意识觉醒,巴黎和会的刺激引发了“五四运动”,民族主义第一次登上中国的历史舞台;从此中国像个“国”了,中国人像个“人”了。(央视网)。