Seventy years ago, while internally China was divided under the control of the warlords and externally she was under pressure from Japanese intrusions and the unequal treaties imposed on her had not been completely revoked, a group of young students came to Lyon to embrace study of the Western system, science and technology in pursuit of the ideal of national salvation.
七十年前，正當中國內有軍閥割據，外有日本侵略，與列強的不平等條約又尚未完全廢除，國步維艱之際，一群年方廿的知識青年，懷抱著學習西方科技、制度以救國的理想，來到里昂。