Private tutor Eonju lives in a tightly packed student apartment. She is sick of poverty and works hard to get her own room. She meets Seok-hee, a middle-aged woman, at a homeless shelter. The emotions of the two women are overwhelming throughout the screen.

The First Issue is composed of five short films created between 2016 and 2018: "The Designated Driver", "Let's Get Divorced", "Ambivalently Yours", " Sorry", and "The Congressman".

A comical martial arts movie about the story of Ho-ryong, who comes down to his hometown of Hoengseong, learns the secret of the family, undergoes harsh training, and avenges his parents and his master.

After going through training to overcome bullying, a high school teenager who has had problems with his life and his relationships in school must face a bully on the first day school.

Jae-min, still getting over his ex-wife Ha-ra, is a talent agent who takes care of actors and actresses with personal issues. They wouldn't leave him alone and kept pushing him to find more auditions for them. At his birthday party, his family tries to give him advice in vein, and to make it worse, Hara phones him every once in a while and confuses him. To Jae-min, being heartbroken with the irrevocable memories of the old days with Hara, Ga-hwa is the only shelter, although the staff there are not any better. Each day of life is tough, But isn't it true that all the meaningless chat, bullshit and nonsense altogether form the universe? The universe is getting old since its birth 15 billion years ago. In this universe, we are probably each other's merciful purgatories.

Dae-il is a student majoring in film, and about to filming his graduate film. His professor, however, does not like his screenplay. And his producer Young-jin picks on that, saying the film is unrealistic and exaggerated. The main actress So-eun also keeps arguing that she cannot feel empathy with her character. Does he can complete this film?

When her son who lives in a single room is given an outrageous $1,000 water bill, a mother decides to become a detective and find out what is behind it.

Sang-hoon who used to be a bank clerk, drivers a taxi now. He wants to break up with his girlfriend Ju-hee for her future but she makes one last proposition to him. Unexpectedly the plan changes as Sang-hoon ends up as a bank robber’s hostage being coerced into joining the thief on a journey across the country. Dead-end lives are portrayed in this road movie.

Promising fund manager Jae-hoon is at the brink of losing everything when his company goes bankrupt. Overwhelmed by despair, he takes an impulsive trip to Australia where his wife and son live. As his trip nears its unexpected end, Jae-hoon gets a chance to look back on his life.

Based on the life of the Korean anarchist Park Yeol, the film shows his struggle to counter the massacre of Koreans by the government during the 1923 great Kanto earthquake, focusing on his activities as the leader of the anti-Japanese organization Bulryeongsa and his relationship with Japanese comrade Fumiko Kaneko.