在这部美国人在平壤纪录片片中,20世纪50年代那场战争，不仅让同一个民族分裂成两个对立的国家，也让东西方文化的交流出现隔阂与断层。在此后的岁月里，他们相互攻讦、诋毁，却从未想过在这片多灾多难的半岛上实现真正的繁荣与和平。
时间到了2007年，一切似乎发生转机。久久封闭的朝鲜民主主义人民共和国向死对头美国伸出橄榄枝，邀请纽约爱乐乐团来平壤演出。这一举措在美国引起轰动，人们纷纷猜测朝鲜背后的动机，也对这次音乐文化传播之旅产生种种期待与焦虑。2008年的2月，爱乐乐团一行两百多人抵达平壤。固有的意识形态让两国人民仍不免误解与隔阂，但优美的旋律却能让一切不和谐荡然无存……
In summer 2007 the New York Philharmonic received an invitation that was unprecedented in the orchestra's history. North Korea, the world's most isolated and secluded country and technically at war with the United States, invited the orchestra to play in the capital of Pyongyang. Just a few months later, two hundred orchestra members and more than one hundred journalists disembarked from a chartered plane at Pyongyang's deserted airport. They were about to experience a historic moment, the first-ever performance by an American orchestra in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
