Four friends struggle with life, philosophy and love during the Sino-Japanese War.
Eun-hie takes advantage of Mr Choi, squeezing as much money as she can from the wealthy man. However, she starts craving true love and turns her attentions to gentle, but married, Mr Ahn
Mi-yeong informs her boyfriend that she is becoming a prostitute to help her poverty striken family. Although she tries not to, she ends up falling in love with wealthy Dae-seon and moves ...
Na-yeong waits and schemes for 10 years before she puts into motion a plan to ruin the man who raped her.
Ae-ri, a young girl with an inoperable tumor, pretends not to know her condition so as not to cause her father additional pain
Yeong-ah falls in love with Hyeong-jun after picking his pocket and the two have a child together. However, his justifiably suspicious wife in Hong Kong begins having Hyeong-jun followed. ...
Su-haeng finds that his much-valued popularity may not save him when his family cannot afford the open heart surgery he requires.
So-hie and Hye-ri have a fierce competition over the man of their dreams and eventually Ji-hun asks So-hie to marry him. Hye-ri is forced to enter into a marriage arranged by her family. ...
Innocent Bok-nyeo is sold at 18 years old to an elderly widower who sends her to work in the salt mines. There she is raped by the supervisor. Becoming very cynical about life, Bok-nyeo ...
Min-seok falls in love with Yeong-a, but her parents object to him. He tries to forget her by going to Seoul where he becomes a gangster. Later, Yeong-a also goes to Seoul to look for ...
A group of young activists for political reform face the challenges of life together
Min-gyu and his wife Sang-hie have been raising their friend's son as their own for years, never imagining that the friend would one day turn up on their doorstep to claim his child.
Man-sook, the king's executioner, promises dutiful Su-kyeong that he will give her father a proper burial after he has been executed. The two fall in love and marry but their lives are ...
Seol becomes impatient waiting for her husband who has gone to Pusan, leaving her behind in Seoul to care for her father-in-law. She decides to go to Pusan to find him and demand that her comes home, but what she finds instead is love.
Yu-mi resents the fact that her husband never comes home at night--even on their first wedding anniversary. She begins an affair with a man named Hyeol, not realizing what will occur when her husband finds out.
Yun-hie suddenly finds that she must compete for her husband's affection. Her rival is a Vietnamese woman whom her husband met during the war.
After selling off his ancestral land, Park Man-kil goes to Seoul and buys a mobile home. Joined by a young thief, he turns his home into a mobile bar. However, because of his success, he ...
Jae-suk meets Jae-woo while she is researching a story for a college readio station. But while she falls in love with him, Jae-woo has his eyes on Jae-suk's older sister
Shanghai Jang searches for No Kang-cheon and Hwang Tak--two men who stole bars of gold that were going to the Korean resistance. However, he locates them just in time to witness them being ...