Civil War veteran Josiah Grey comes to a small town to be a gospel minister. In time he has a family and many friends, but he also finds friction with a few of his parishioners. A young doctor grates at what he feels is the parson's interference in the scientific treatment of patients, and a mine owner resents Grey's protection of an old sharecropper whose small plot of land st...。这是一部正面描写改革开放条件下部队建设、以及军队与地方关系的电视长剧。
本剧通过一批带着战火硝烟走进和平年代,来到经济特区,在边境轮训、百万裁军,走精兵之路,特区发展,准备进驻香港等几件世界注目的大事件中,以秦子雄、慕容秋、闻勇、章大军等为代表的当代军人们对事业生活爱情的追求。该剧不仅正面展现人民军队在这一时期的风采,而且揭示人民军队在共和国现代化进程中所付出的牺牲,讴歌当代军人甘于寂寞,忍受清贫,无私奉献的高尚情怀。。