In North Korea, citizens found humming South Korean pop songs risk being sent to a gulag for six months of hard labour. Jail sentences are handed out if portraits of the late Kim Jong-il are not properly dusted. Shoot-to-kill orders are in effect for anyone caught trying to cross the Yalu or Tumen Rivers into China.
One terrible winter, Jean valjean steals a loaf of bread to feed his young nieces and nephews. He is caught and put in jail. As Valjean struggles to hide from the law, he finds him self living side by side with many of the sick, injured, and poor members of PAris's lowest class -- those known only as Les Miserables