Cui, a young journalist obsessed with the truth, becomes trapped during a mysterious work assignment to North Korea. Cut off from modern technology and placed under constant surveillance by heavily armed soldiers, he feels alienated in a land seemingly frozen in time. Everything changes after an accident on Mount Baekdu. Cui falls into a legendary cave—where bears and tigers were once said to have transformed into humans—and awakens amid the raging Korean War of the 1950s. No longer holding a pen and camera, Cui must now wield a sniper rifle as a Company Commander among the Chinese People’s Volunteer Army. Pinned down on Hill 175 with ammunition nearly exhausted and facing relentless American artillery bombardment, he is forced to rely on his journalist’s instincts and deadly sniper precision to survive. Amid snow stained red with blood, Cui realizes that the history he once read in textbooks bears little resemblance to the brutal reality on the battlefield. He is no longer reporting the news—he is the news. Can he hold the vital bridge and save his comrades, or will the echoes of the past consume him forever?