王氏竹罐后人王召恩遵祖训躲避皇帝招其入宫。万没想到逃离家乡后还是被扮成绸缎商人的乾隆招入宫内。王召恩在宫中凭独门绝技救死扶伤深受赞扬。后遭庸医嫉妒陷害差点亡命刑场。乾隆帝驾崩后他无奈逃离宫廷流落民间。。Canadian surgeon Dr. Norman Bethune (Donald Sutherland) journeys 1,500 miles into China to reach Mao Zedong's eighth route Army in the Wu Tai mountains where he will build hospitals, provide care, and train medics. Flashbacks narrate the earlier events of his life: a bout with tuberculosis at the Trudeau sanatorium| the self-administration of an experimental pneumothorax| the i...。