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Based on the novel "In Faraway Mynlunsha" about the events that took place in 1950 on the southern border of the People's Republic of China, where the Tai people live. About the struggle to establish people's power in this remote corner, about the resistance of enemies and saboteurs who tried to turn the population against the People's Liberation Army working group that came to the village to help this previously oppressed and downtrodden people.
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