反对独裁政权企盼民主主义、怀揣总统梦的政治家与其背后以天才战略搅动竞选局面、人称“选举鬼才”的男人在上世纪60-70年代所经历的波澜万丈的故事。

故事讲述被软禁在家中的预备大选竞选人和秘密监视邻居的一举一动的国家秘密情报要员，以及隔着一道墙的两个极端职业男子之间可疑而又隐秘的交易。

　　1973年6月，驻日韩国大使馆一等书记官金车云等人接到命令，准备绑架正在日本的韩国在野党领袖金大中。行动代号“KT”。从陆军军官学校时期起就与朴正熙保持联系的自卫队幕僚二部部长XZ田，以及为韩国中央情报局提供支持的幕僚二部部员富田等人运用各种手段追查金大中的下落。大使馆内部的线人通过接近采访过金大中的记者神川得知金大中将于8月9日进行演讲。金车云得报后，立刻布置具体作战计划。但由于计划败露，他们不得不提早一天行动，终于绑架成功。然而正当他们准备坐船返回韩国时，自卫队在美方的要求下出手开始阻止他们的行动………

Kim Dae Jung, who stands next to people in the middle of caotic history! A young businessman Kim Dae Jung recognized the victims of ideology. He decided to be a politician to make his country where people's politic and democracy are rooted. The price of being leave from a guaranteed future and take the first step on a bumby road was kidnapping, death threats, imprisonment, and a death sentence that shook him to the core, but even in his final moments, when he was sentenced to death, Kim never wavered. "Democracy will be recovered. I believe in it." The life of President Kim Dae-jung, a death row inmate who survived from the throes of death, four parliamentary elections, and three unsuccessful presidential campaigns, is etched into the modern history of South Korea.