A man spends all of his tuition money on his sick father and is forced to take a job in a factory where he becomes involved with the plight of the foreign workers.

So-ryong is the delivery man of a Chinese restaurant when he falls in love with Jang, a local girl who is forced by a hoodlum into prostitution. Feeling helpless, So-ryong promises to learn kung fu so that he may fight and save Jang from her misery.

Returning home and finding his town drastically changed, a former soldier falls in with gangsters.

Yu-jin refuses to allow herself to become pregnant--much to her husband's disappointment. She is too busy with her career to even take care of the house, let alone a baby. But Yu-jin's thoughts that she is successful begin to crumble when she discovers her husband and the housekeeper she hired in bed together.