The documentary starts with a diva of a tragic family history related to a history of migration. The rare archival footage reanimates her history reverberating with the current world crisis. Sound of Nomad: Koryo Arirang is a testimonial ？ a witness to injustice and tragedy, but it is also a declaration of survival ？ a survival that is not static but transformative ？ not brittle but fluid. The trains that displace, the deserts that separate form one harsh horizon ？ a historical limit ？ but within that limit, against it and across it are people, are a culture, not escaping but flourishing unofficially, with the affective majesty of a melody, a rhythm, an Arirang