Tianya and his sister are ordered by General Feng Peichuan to embark on a treasure hunt to find the Golden Moon Gem to cure the plague in Heishui Town, but General Feng Peichuan has other motives for finding this treasure.

Summer of 1945. A temporary orphanage is established in an abandoned palace surrounded by forests for the eight children liberated from the Gross-Rosen camp. Hanka, also a former inmate, becomes their guardian. After the atrocities of the camp, the protagonists slowly begin to regain what is left of their childhood but the horror returns quickly. Camp Alsatians roam the forests around. Released by the SS earlier on, they have gone feral and are starving. Looking for food they besiege the palace. The children are terrified and their camp survival instinct is triggered.