S1.E40 ∙ Zhuge Liang Borrows Arrows with Straw Boats

1943. Beriya instructs his deputy Vsevolod Zamyatin to assemble a team of scientists to design the first Soviet atomic bomb. To do this in the midst of war and in a short time is an almost impossible task.

In 1990s, Liu Jun returns from Germany to modernize his father's machinery factory. He struggles acquiring capital and technology but gets help from a friend Song. Despite obstacles, Liu adapts and leads factory's transformation.

The drama depicts the lives and struggles of the inhabitants of a village called Bakulia during the British Raj. The village has two influential but feuding families, the Miah's and the Syed's.

In the summer of 1943, the Soviet leadership became aware of the achievements of German physicists in creating the atomic bomb. The task of obtaining secret information about the creation of a new type of weapon that can change the course of the war is given to a Soviet agent acting undercover, Frans Hartmann. A complex multi-way operation begins. Hartman involves the chief of German intelligence, Walter Schellenberg, in whose field of vision is the German scientific genius Werner Heisenberg. The Gestapo also steps in and assigns an "employee of the German Foreign Ministry" Dori to Hartman. At the same time, in Moscow, under the leadership of the talented physicist Igor Kurchatov, work on the Soviet atomic project was intensifying.

Tells the story of Juan Pujol, a Spanish double agent who was key for the allies winning World War II.