Great expectations. Beggars, blind people and black and white impermanence are members of Shanghai Thirteen Pacific Insurance. The play is set in Shanghai, the magical capital in the 1920s. It tells the story that when Hong Sanyuan first came to Shanghai to pursue his great future, he met a group of ambitious young people who wanted to change the turbulent and unfair situation in the old society and plan the great future of the country together for the change of the nation and destiny.