Kim, a Taekwondo champion decides to give up his fighting career for good in order to take care of his daughter Sa Rang. But when an evil gambling kingpin kidnaps Sa Rang, Kim must agree to fight in a rigged boxing match in exchange for Sa Rang's freedom.

Actor #1 is a mid-aged actor who used to be famous yet fails to accept the world has changed. Without being able to understand him, his son tells him to adapt to the reality; however, Actor #1 feels bitter about his son’s advice. One day, he has one last chance to audition for a part. At the audition venue, he bumps into Actor #2 in shabby clothes whom he spent his golden years with.

Yu-ra yearns for money and fame while Jun wants to go back to his hometown. Yu-ra scolds Jun. Jun helps Yu-ra in her efforts to become a star. In her reach for stardom, Yu-ra is unaware that a person is helping her out from behind the scenes.

Ji Hoon, who showed great promise as an athlete, is released from jail after serving time for his friend Dong Jin's crime. Dong Jin is now the head of a mob organization and he tries to lure Ji Hoon to work for him. Ji Hoon tries to start over and begins a job in a stable and refuses to work for Dong Jin when Dong Jin's men approach him. But Dong Jin is relentless in his pursuit of his old friend. He will do what it takes to bring Ji Hoon into his organization. As Ji Hoon continues to refuse his offer, Dong Jin gets his one and only sister involved. By using Soo Ah as bait, Dong Jin tries to convince Ji Hoon to come to him. Meanwhile, Dong Jin's father ridicules his younger brother, Dong Suk, being a good-for-nothing ingrate. Dong Suk, in an attempt to prove himself to his family, takes things too far. He takes his brother's men on a raid of a local nightclub.

In this entry in the long-running Madame Aema series, Aema's husband becomes romantically involved with a Japanese woman after taking a job at a Japanese company. Aema must also contend with two men who are making romantic advances towards her.

As the tragic war of fratricide is drawing to a close, a special agent nicknamed Dokbul, Kang Cheol-gu, is given an intelligence mission to identify and confirm the enemy's unusual movements. While on a mission, Cheol-gu infiltrates the enemy's camp alone and accidentally witnesses a bloody scene of massacre of civilians. He saves the only survivor, Hwang No-in, and is hinted that the enemy's plot is very dangerous. Cheol-gu approaches Mi-young, a People's Army nurse, to extract information, but is exposed to the enemy and escapes a crisis after a fierce battle. In the end, thanks to Cheol-gu's persistence, Mi-young realizes the illusion of the liberation struggle they are calling for, and transforms into Cheol-gu's collaborator to stop their horrific plot, germ warfare, and carries out the mission. However, the result of this tragic war is only futility. A war of illusions where more is lost than gained, and in the end, even the nickname Dokbul sheds hot tears.