The drama shows the indomitable mental power and ardent patriotism displayed by the people of a mountainous county in the drive to implement the policy of the Workers' Party of Korea on building medium- and small-scale hydraulic power stations during the Arduous March in the 1990s. It gives a profound philosophical clarification of the memory of faith and will, not memory of sorrow.

The drama, one of monumental masterpieces representing the literature and arts in the era of Songun, is going on before full houses, evoking a lively response from among people.