"Awakening" is a drama about the war of resistance against Japan. It tells the story of a group of people in Shanghai who fought desperately for the interests of the country and the nation for the benefit of the country and the nation before the full-scale war of resistance against Japan in 1937. The protagonist Tong Fei returned from Southeast Asia after the outbreak of the National Revolution. After training, he became the number one agent of the Kuomintang Military Intelligence Bureau. He lost his memory due to an injury during a secret mission, but he gradually regained his memory with a bank safe key that he was asked to hand over to "Lao Kang", the manager of a Shanghai trading company. He had different emotional entanglements with the female leader of the mountain village, the daughter of the chairman of the trading company, the female patrolman, and the woman of the Cao Gang leader. He was once lost in money and advocating violence. In the face of national crisis, in the face of national justice, under the guidance of his most trusted friends and the most beloved woman, Tong Fei re-selected his life beliefs and embarked on the road of resisting Japan and saving the country.