Prologue: boundless ocean, vast skies -- Introduction -- Part One: Two systems : Chapter 1: Promised land -- Chapter 2: Golden age -- Chapter 3: Unchanged -- Chapter 4: Alliance -- Chapter 5: Refuge -- Chapter 6: Borrowed time -- Chapter 7: Occupy -- Part Two: Burn with us : Chapter 8: The leader who killed her city -- Chapter 9: Gwyneth -- Chapter 10: Evil law -- Chapter 11: Laam Caau -- Chapter 12: 7.21 -- Chapter 13: International front -- Chapter 14: Arrested person -- Part Three: One country : Chapter 15: A hanging sword -- Chapter 16; Exile or jail -- Chapter 17: The five -- Chapter 18: Disappearances -- Afterword

"Through the eyes of two frontline journalists comes a gripping narrative history of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement centered around a cast of core activists, culminating in the 2019 mass protests and Beijing's brutal crackdown."-inside front cover