The Red Detachment of Women

About the show

On Hainan Island during the Chinese Civil War, Wu Qinghua escapes an abusive landlord and joins the Red Army's Women's Detachment. After an impulsive attack endangers a mission, she is retrained and fights alongside the unit. Commissar Hong Changqing is captured and executed, but the Red Army defeats the landlord's forces; Wu succeeds Hong and continues the cause.