Hwa-Sim is a prostitute who believes in love. Joon-Chi is a novelist. He wanders around aimlessly and eventually settles in with Hwa-Sim. Sunny, also a prostitute and someone that looks up to Hwa-Sim, appears in their relationship.

Buzz Salon which is run by Cho is known for its mysterious ambience. Gi-hyuk, one of Cho's best customers, falls for Hae-joo, a hostess at Buzz. Cho uses Hae-joo to kill gangsters who harass him with money he owes them. When Gi-hyuk discovers that Hae-joo is biologically male, he feels betrayed and becomes disillusioned. He leaves her for good. Hae-joo is able to get her transgender operation in return for the assassinations and goes in search of Gi-hyuk. She returns to Gi-hyuk, as a new person, calling herself Yoo-jung. She also begins to take revenge on the thugs who abused her in the past.

With the new millenium, the U.N. human rights committee proposes the first Prisoner's World Cup, putting forth the slogans of Liberty, Equality, and Harmony. Corrections wardens across Korea are thrown into a dilemma over whether to let their prisoners participate or not. The Hope Team is one of the most unlikely soccer teams in the world with a total of 75 previous convictions and an average of 6 for each player. With promises of leaves and reduced sentences, the team members are motivated to the hilt. They pool their various criminal talents to play, fight, and poison their way to the finals despite a prejudiced referee and two of the team's members having been bought off by the opposing team. But when their leader, the only condemned man among them, breaks out of jail, the team is thrown into chaos and they learn some more about hope.

Kam-bo is released from jail after serving five years for smuggling. He looks for his accomplice, Dong-il, and his wife. Dong-il has cleaned up his old life, determined to start anew. Kam-bo goes to the racetracks to kill time. A hustler pickpockets Kam-bo but he is rendered helpless by Kam-bo's strength when he catches up with him. The two become friends. The hustler gives Kam-bo a watch. Unwittingly, Kam-bo becomes a suspect in a murder due to the watch. Kam-bo and the hustler stick their noses into the murder investigation as they try to find out where the stolen watch came from. The parties behind the murder use a cute delinquent girl named Na-young as a front to take the fall. However, Kam-bo narrowly escapes death numerous times to finally break their organization and clear his name.

Dong-seok Cha, a documentary producer, made a documentary about 'Geochang massacre in 1951' for its 60th anniversary, but it is not selected as a broadcasting program for its lack of impact. So, PD Cha is disappointed until he meets Ji-yoon and her grandfather Lee, who was a soldier at the time of 'Geochang massacre in 1951', and has lost his memories by disease. Ji-yoon and Lee come down to Geochang to find a girl in a picture, which Lee has kept for his life. PD Cha thinks that it is a great chance to take impact on the documentary by filming him.

In 2028, cartoonist Han Cho becomes obsessed with his neighbor, an assassin named Nana. He professes his love for her but she remains indifferent. By accident Han Cho finds an amnesia-inducing drug which he uses to spike Nana’s drink. With her memory blanked out, Nana is told that she is Han Cho’s girlfriend.

So-yeon is a college student who sues the government for not being able to protect the socially weak from sexual favors. She goes on national television to talk about this case. Hae-yeong is a broadcasting anchor who hosts the show and the panel starts to battle about the matter of sexual favors. Uncensored words go back and forth as the debate goes on and the initial topic of sexual favors turns into a talk about the basic laws that the government must live by and its problems as well as the duplicity of the higher social class. The debate turns into harsh words and pointing fingers while the director of the broadcasting station instigates them to do better for improved viewing percentage . So-yeon is alone in the hall after everyone’s left and she opens her mouth.. “There's no seduction I can't refuse...”

Eom Jang-ho, a student of sculpture art, will appear in a folklore presentation hosted by his girlfriend Oh Hyo-jin, a historian. In the process of projecting various folklore materials, she sees a rotten heirloom mask and awakens a certain subconscious mind in the form of the mask. Her story is the story of how a clown dancing in her cloak raped her Thatcher's wife, causing her to plunge into her well. Eomjang-ho, who is engaged in the final practice of her sandae play mask dance, suffers from more vague fear because of her succession mask written on his face. Meanwhile, Oh Hyo-jin, unable to meet Jang-ho after the incident in the auditorium, goes down to the countryside with her classmates as a member of the archaeological excavation team. Even after she begins excavating the archaeological site, she is still depressed and asks if it's because her advisor loves her mother-in-law. She feels that she is in love with her majestic Ho.