After ten years of knowledge and choice, after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Lin Nansheng has grown into a true Communist Party member. And at the critical moment of the War of Liberation, he made outstanding contributions to the party and the country.
After a brutal invasion of China by the Imperial Japanese Army, a Chinese professor in Boston named Wu Ming Tai decides to return to Beijing to translate a document for the UN. This document confirmed the war crimes of the Japanese army against China. However, the Japanese general was aware of the professor's return home. The army would do anything to prevent the return of Wu Ming Tai, including kidnapping his brother and forcing him to become a Japanese citizen.
《一把青》的故事描寫在1945－1981年間，從抗戰勝利、國共內戰到後來中華民國政府撤守台灣，那個「消滅萬惡共匪、解救大陸同胞」及「漢賊不兩立」反攻大陸口號，喊得震天價響的動盪不安年代，空軍飛官及其眷屬幾段被戰火無情摧逼，生死兩隔的故事。
導演曹瑞原以劇中的朱青、秦芊儀（師娘）、周瑋訓（小周）三個空軍女眷，在動盪、流離的時代浪濤中，目睹著生命的易碎，從青澀的女學生嫁給空軍飛官後，跟著丈夫從南京到台北的眷村，經歷著遷徙、漂泊與離散，以大時代變動結合個人命運悲歡，帶出女性的堅韌總能扛起一個時代的動人故事，進而交織成一部死生契闊的史詩鉅作。
Cheung Kei-sang and the orphan Chau Sai-kai, two young lovers from a village in Southern China, are forcibly separated on their marriage day due to the Japanese invasion. Filled with hatred and vengeance, Sai-kai joins a Kuomintang secret agency, becoming their spy, while Kei-sang ends up in a Communist guerrilla militia and receives training to be their government’s spy. It is through this militia group where Kei-sang meets Kong Sheung-hung, another Communist spy. Together, they go on a mission to search for a Japanese businessman, who looks eerily like Sheung-hung...
