In 1936, the young Englishman Zescott followed his father's will and came to the British colony of Sarawak from a thousand miles away from Britain, where he was engaged in the work of educating the locals living in the jungle.
From the moment Belance, the son of a local indigenous leader, received Zescott at the dock, Zescott was puzzled by the unrestrained life of the local residents, and secretly determined to carry forward the ideological education from Britain here.
Belancer led Zescott back to the jungle, where he lived in the jungle, Zescott met his superiors Henry and Belancer's father and the people he wanted to cultivate. Local people jokingly greeted Zescott's arrival and sent him a beautiful "The Sleeping Dictionary".
"The Sleeping Dictionary" is a lover prepared by local residents for British officials, and it is the British who first came here that caused this phenomenon. The daily work of these lovers is to take care of the daily lives of these British officers and teach them to speak the local language. However, according to the laws and regulations of the colony, women as "The Sleeping Dictionary" must not marry these British officers, otherwise they will have to face the fate of being executed.
At the beginning, Henry also hesitated between national laws and love because he fell in love with his "The Sleeping Dictionary". But in the end, in the face of strict regulations, Henry gave up his lover and his daughter, and stood with his country.
The mixed-race Xilima is "The Sleeping Dictionary" by Zescott. After she met Zescott at the prom, she took the initiative to come to Zescott's "The Sleeping Dictionary". Because of his education, Zescott could not fully accept Xilima at first, but after the two got together for a while, Zescott was attracted by the beautiful and intelligent Xilima and fell in love with her deeply.
After that, his parents delineated a marriage for him, and his fiancee Ai Ji came to this land and began to enter his life. Whether to follow convention or break through tradition, Zescott is faced with a painful choice.
