(three acts and seven scenes) character list Directors of various police stations—male, about 30 years old, party member, director of a certain police station.Ping Haiyan—female, 24 years old, a League member, a policeman. Liu Chaoyun—male, in his twenties, a police officer. Li Zhengui—female, 47 or 8 years old, an activist on the street.Wang Renli's wife, Li Tianxiang's stepmother, formerly known as Wang Guizhen. Li Tianxiang—male, 27 years old, a demobilized soldier. Wang Renli—male, in his fifties, a transport worker.Wang Xiuzhu and Wang Xinying's father. Wang Rende—male, in his forties, younger brother of Renli, a cook in the Lianhuafeng People's Commune.

Wang Xiuzhu—female, 25 years old, worker. Wang Xinying—male, 20 years old, student. Ding Hong—male, 26 years old, worker, Xiuzhu's fiancé.Shen Weiyi—male, 19 years old, a student of Xinying, a member of the league. Lin Sansao—female, 30 years old, lives in the same courtyard as Li Zhengui. Grandma Jing—female, 80 years old, lives in the same hospital as Li Zhengui. Yu Zhuang—male, in his twenties, a policeman. Brother Tang—male, in his thirties, a worker. Aunt Tang—female, thirty years old, wife of Brother Tang.