故事发生在晋商繁荣发展的时期。晋商殷家管家女儿酸枣与殷家小伙计相爱，而管家为了谋取殷家财产，逼迫酸枣嫁给殷家的傻少爷。由此引发了管家毒死小伙计与酸枣双双身亡的悲惨结局。舞剧通过酸枣与小伙计悲凉的爱情，书写了一曲永恒的绝唱。舞剧以爱情生活为内容，展示了山西晋商的事业发展历程。该剧在题材上进行了大胆开掘和尝试，全剧感情真挚朴实，舞蹈、音乐、舞美、服装、道具、化妆等充满了浓郁的地域风格和民族情感，体现出特定历史时期的思想、文化及审美追求

It is in the period when business of Jin (Ancient Shanxi) merchants prospers. Suan Zao (literally spine date), daughter of the housekeeper of the Yin family, falls in love with a servant boy of the family. But the housekeeper who covets the Yin family’s assets forces his daughter to marry the idiot son of his boss by poisoning the servant boy after whose death Suan Zao is dead of despair. The show displays the development history of Jin merchants’ business through a tragic love story. It innovates with efforts in the dance, music, stage design, costume, prop and dressing, which are permeated with profound local styles and national feelings. It mirrors the ideas, culture and taste of a specific period of time in Shanxi Province.