In January 1940, Liang Shuo, an underground worker of our party who suffered a head injury, woke up from a blizzard in the mountains. He lost his memory due to the injury and came to Shanghai to search based on clues. However, his identity was caught in the roundup of the Japanese army, so he suspected that he was a member of the army. People from Wang Puppet No. 76 also found him and said that he was the director of the Operations Division.
At this time, the “Peace and Co-Prosperity Conference” jointly organized by the Japanese and Wang governments is about to be held. A group of refugee workers who have been tightly imprisoned by Japan will also be pushed onto the battlefield after the conference, and their lives are at stake.
hidden in the abyss is the usual spy drama set around the time of world war 2. main guy is communist spy in the japanese supported puppet governtment. Uses the usual amnesia trope to create some mystery like bourne identity. ep 1 starts in 1940 winter in yulong mountain, yunnan province. Main guy goes to shanghai which was controlled by the japanese (attack on pearl harbor was dec 1941). Chinese in 1940 shanghai suffered from poverty and the cold winter of 1940 killed about 12,000 chinese. In 1940 shanghai, most of shanghai was controlled by the japanese puppet government, and a small part of shanghai (less than 1/10) was controlled by the western powers like britain, america, france, italy. Main gal is a spy also and in ep 1, she is in suzhou, jiangsu province which borders shanghai. Main guy and main gal meet on a train.