Min Jok Jay Hung Sing

During the Japanese invasion of China, a group of refugees travel by foot to Hong Kong and carry with them their worldly possessions. Once in Hong Kong, Hor Bak Hung, a wealthy man, and his wife reunite with their son. Hor explains to his son the hardships the family endured on the road, but the son is only interested in acquiring some of his father's money. Later, Mrs. Hor catches her son trying to seduce Ah Ying, a poor young Chinese woman who has been hired as a servant. Although Mrs. Hor knows that Ying is innocent, she fires her. While looking for a job, Ying meets three young men from the refugee group, who invite her to move into their humble household, where the walls are covered with nationalist epithets and slogans. They all pool their meager resources, and when one of the members wishes to give up, Lui Pan, the scholar of the group, says that they must fight like Sun Yat Sun, the founder of a Chinese republic. Lui takes odd jobs as a laborer and gives street-corner lectures to his fellow refugees about the current situation in China as well as the country's heroic past. One day, when Hor, the owner of the building at which Lui gives his lectures on nationalist revolution, tries to force Lui to stop speaking, the crowd turns on the wealthy man with fury. Sang, a young man who had carried Hor's luggage during the flight to Hong Kong, is especially incensed. Hor treats Sang rudely, but Lui makes Sang's acquaintance and gains another disciple for his cause. One day, as Sang, a hotel bellhop, is at work, he notices Hor meeting with a businessman named Captain Tong. The two men have benefitted from the war, and Sang discovers evidence of their plan to sell the enemy the rare and valuable tungsten ore that is needed for bombers and weapons. Sang tells Lui of the treacherous plan and it is decided that one of the members of the group, Tai, will go to the commander of the guerilla forces in China and inform him of the plot. Meanwhile, Hor, owner of the Far East Knitting Factory where Ying has found a job, slashes the employees' pay by twenty percent in order to pay for a lavishly expensive wedding celebration for his spoiled son. The employees, including Ying, who has learned much from Lui about workers' rights, go on strike. Sometime later, Lui gathers together a group of discontents outside the building where the Hor wedding is taking place. He then reads a newspaper article implicating Hor in the sale of tungsten ore to the enemy and stating that Tong has already been executed for his crimes against China. Shortly thereafter, a servant at the wedding announces the scandal, and the bride loudly expresses her disapproval of her new father-in-law. Just as Hor manages to get his agitated guests to relax, he receives a phone call informing him of the strike at his factory. The strike representatives demand their old salary, money for board, and the assurance that Hor will not use enemy materials, and Hor is forced to capitulate to their demands. When Tai returns from China, he brings news of the guerilla commander's lack of pretension and the new sense of brotherly love that is sweeping the invaded country. He tells the group that every man in China is being educated and has learned to grow his own vegetables. Heeding the call of their nation, the small group of refugees decide to return to their country with the knowledge that if China's four-hundred and fifty million people unite, they will never again lose their freedom.