The Listener

In 1949, the beginning of the founding of New China. The country has been decided, everything is waiting to be done, and the war without gunpowder under the appearance of peace has already begun. The Kuomintang, which was defeated and fled to Taiwan, sent agents to the mainland one after another, waiting for opportunities to sabotage. In order to deal with the successive sabotage activities, the CCP established Bureau 701, an intelligence department, to launch successive contests with the enemy. In early October of the same year, the interception bureau controlled by Bureau 701 disappeared inexplicably. In order to find out the whereabouts of the missing radio station, the head of Bureau 701, Lao Gui (played by Wang Xuebing), ordered Zhang Xuening (played by Zhou Xun), codenamed 200, to go to Shanghai to find Luo Saner, a piano tuner with outstanding hearing. As a result, by mistake, Xuening found Rhodes's apprentice - a blind tuner named A Bing (played by Tony Leung) who also has excellent hearing. Ah Bing lived up to expectations. Not only did he pass the rigorous examinations, he also made a splash at work. In the brutal espionage war, a certain affection between A Bing and Xuening also secretly developed...