Back to 1942

History should never be forgotten.

A harrowing historical drama confronting one of China's worst famines, layering natural catastrophe with governmental failure and human suffering.

In 1942, Henan Province was devastated by one of the most tragic famines in modern Chinese history, resulting in the deaths of at least three million men, women and children. Although the primary cause of the famine was a severe drought, it was exacerbated by locusts, windstorms, earthquakes, epidemic disease and the corruption of the ruling Kuomintang government.