In the follow-up, Kim Dong-won focuses instead on the long-term prisoners who, though they ‘converted’ through coercion, still hope for repatriation to North Korea; in particular, a character by the name of Kim Young-shik. However, as much as the documentary is about Kim Young-shik and the ‘converted’ long term political prisoners, it is also about Kim Dong-won himself. Here we come face to face with those mighty individuals who tell eloquently of how, for them, the 20th-century was never over, and was drawn to a halt by force, in danger of being buried entirely.