该剧是19年前同名电视剧的改编重拍，可以说是一种经典的延续或再生。讲述的是在政局混乱、生活贫困的时代背景下，一家四口历经的艰难困苦以及爱情抉择。

　　朴母是小城的市场老户，米行老板，代替无能的父亲兼父职带着长子泰俊、次子泰洙、幺女善姬坚强度日。 大儿子泰俊是名牌大学的大学生，他是母亲的希望也是支柱，而小儿子泰洙却是个地痞流氓，刚从部队退役。在经历父亲过世等一连串事故后，泰俊的家人和女友美子逃亡到了首尔。

　　在首尔的一家餐厅辛苦讨生活的泰俊女友美子被金导演看中，开始了演员生涯，而仍深爱着美子的泰俊与美子重逢后，共同约定未来。但是，因泰俊母亲的反对，美子最终嫁给了金导演。泰洙爱上了果园老板的女儿恩焕，在知道几年前曾短暂同居的京子有了自己的骨肉后，迫不得已开始了不幸的婚姻生活。几年后，泰俊一家人开始了平静的生活，泰洙放弃成人考试后，就职于一流企业，不断升职，并与金导演去世后独居的美子重逢。

Park Tae-joon is an intelligent law student and a filial son to his parents who runs a mill. His has a younger brother, Tae-soo not quite as academic still quite smart and a known brat in town, and a younger sister, the kind and gentle hearted Sun-hee. From the same town as Tae-Joon, Kim Mi-ja, his love interest is sick and tired of living in poverty and desires to leave their small town for a better life. One day after their father’s death, the family learns that they will lose their home as a pledge due to an assurance their father has made before his death. From the poverty stricken post war era of the 1950s to the modern times of Korea, this TV-series follows a family and the surrounding characters who rode the drastic changes with passion.

사랑과 야망은 2006년 2월4일부터 2006년 11월 12일까지 방영되었던 SBS특별기획드라마이다.

1987년 MBC에서 방영된 사랑과 야망을 리메이크하였다.