The 23-part drama shows up the atrocities the Japanese aggressors committed against the Korean people in the period of the Imjin Patriotic War (1592-1598).

It also tells about the all-people resistance against the aggressors waged by the Koreans, including kisaengs (entertainer), the lowest social status at that time, and peasants, water carriers, blacksmiths and monks.

The heroine of the drama is Kye Wol Hyang, well-known as a patriotic woman in the history of Korea. She was a kisaeng at the government office in the Walled City of Pyongyang.

When the Japanese aggressors occupied the city for a while, she resolved to devote her life to driving out the Japs from the country.

Pretending to serve the Japs, she spied the enemy movements to inform the Korean Volunteers Army of them.

Then she guided Kim Ung So, head of the Volunteers Army, into the walled city covertly to kill the boss of the enemy troops. Later she was arrested and kept her principles until she died a heroic death.

There is a memorial to Kye Wol Hyang at the Ryongwang Pavilion in Pyongyang and the place where she lived is called Wolhyang-dong.