Stifle Tears under the Lash

Sima is concluding college when he is thrown in prison on a fabricated charge. He finished his term in five years. Refusing to withstand the tortures and humiliations that are the lot of political prisioners, Ma escapes and lives like an outlaw a few years before a report brings him back to the labor camp. He is eventually released 19 years afterwards. His life in and out of the labor camp is intermingled with untold physical and spiritual suffering and lovely romances that lend a light to the dreary prison life. His life as an outlaw is hard but colorful, and his endeavors characterized by an unremitting search for justice and true love.