The play tells the story of the 1937 Nanjing massacre in forty-nine days the story. The Japanese army entered the occupied Nanjing City, were ordered to bury the bodies of dead soldiers and prisoners of war Chinese. At the same time, the downtown St. Ma church ushered in a group of uninvited guests, a dozen female students and the Qinhuai River woman, they reach the same goal by different routes for the same thing -- to flee. Followed by many men also because of various reasons to enter the church. Outside the walls of the Japanese are looking for any excuse to enter the church, St Delen church backyard become their landfill body cover up the crime target, the organizers of the international safety zone to try various rescue trapped personnel plan church, but often fail. The men in the church in order to protect the hidden in the church attic and cellar woman, gave their lives, women or choose to die with dignity, or to resist the most heroic. In the forty-nine days and nights, they and them, in a time of survival, resistance, destruction and resurrection of the conclusion of the love, affection and friendship, have weak become warriors, had lost to find the direction, once the nothingness of the harvest was guilty, had completed the redemption.