Beginning with the suicide of a film director, this work represents the Korean New Wave Cinema movement that focused on criticizing the Korean society in the 1980s through satire and humor. The journey taken by the characters, who lead low lives at the margins of the society, award them with a sense of liberation, however brief.

Disgusted with the behavior of his young step-mother, Sang-tae does a little digging into her past and discovers, among other things, that she may have killed her former lover.

The famous detective called 'the Hedgehog' finds himself the reluctant pawn of a North Korean spy who is trying to gain control of the Busan smuggling operations.

Hyeon-shik discovers that his live-in girlfriend, Eun-suk, has two other passionate suitors; The artist, Jin-woo and In-tae, a taxi driver.

A woman and a man she claims to be her brother convince a naive employee of a prosperous company to help them steal the company funds, promising to divide the money three ways.