Park Il Rae, an elderly man who is at the end of the human race, challenges his last dream of becoming a man of merit before his death.

Struggling financially, Me-ja and Dal-su live together, get pregnant unintendedly, and decide to sell the baby to a wealthy, infertile couple.

Romances end in blood and the frail hopes of individuals are torn apart in a vile karmic continuity of colonialism, civil war and occupation. After surviving Japanese colonization, Korea became the first war zone of the Cold War. The legacy of war remains today in this divided country.

On September 4, 1984, democracy movement leader Kim Jong Tae is arrested and taken to an infamous interrogation facility in Namyeong-dong. For the next 22 days, he would be cruelly and continuously tortured in all manners by interrogators intent on forcing him to confess to communist collaboration.

A reporter who lives an extreme life stumbles upon a countryside village one day and unravels the hideous secrets behind it.

This atmospheric drama follows photographer Min-woo, who enters into a torrid affair with a now-married ex-girlfriend, although he is distracted by a building obsession with the tormented ghost of the young woman who used to live in his apartment.

A broadcasting company hosts an actor/actress contest and 30 contestants are pre-selected. Yong-Woo and Eun-Sook are two of them and they are also lovers. Eun-Sook desperately wants to be a TV star and approaches a producer. Yong-Woo discovers this and argues with her. In the meantime, Eun-Sook happens to meet Yu-Suk and spends a night with him, after he tells her that he knows a lot about broadcasting companies.

Park Jin-gi, a third-rate movie star is now out of fashion. Do-pil, a third-rate singer whose goal is to produce an album, and Jin-gi, whose goal is to produce a movie, were just trying to do well in Busan, where they left to find investors, but the results were a mess. In the end, Jin-gi, who was kicked out of the house, begins to live together with his father-in-law, who suffers from dementia due to his mother-in-law's scheme and is mentally unstable and constantly has accidents...

A comic book store in Garibong-dong is run by a beautiful woman better known as Madam. This store stays open late into the night, thus attracting varied types of people such as gangsters and hustlers.