Chinese student Song Lan is at first reluctant to join the protest movement in Beijing but as the demonstrations increase starts to join the protests. She soon finds herself in Tiananmen Square where she meets the journalist P J O'Connor. When the soldiers move in, using machine guns and tanks against the young people, Song and O'Connor are separated and in the chaos of events around the massacre O'Connor searches for Song but to no avail. He is arrested and expelled from China but just before his expulsion there is one last surprise.