South Korea, 1998: While the country moves closer towards democracy, Young-oak remains at odds with his female-connotated name while attending a boy's school where the air is thick with testosterone. The young man is struggling to fit in and find a new name among corrupt teachers and the teenagers' violent power games, which are as subtle as they are extreme. Behind his mother Jeong-sun's seemingly unflappable exterior, a past long repressed is reemerging, which she is reluctant to face. Yet confrontation is unavoidable – and it leads back to the national tragedy surrounding the Jeju Uprising of April 3rd, 1948.

Ralphie, a fashion editor already lives like an AI. In a room where ten laptops run simultaneously, he gives a personality to an AI named Call and falls in love. He codes Call into a visual form, but censorship prevents him from fully undressing it. He keeps Call alive despite the electricity costs. However, Call becomes famous and leaves Ralphie. As time passes, Call returns to him to survive. Ralphie allows himself one last moment of sweetness—only to cruelly press something at the very instant Call feels safest. Was this love real—or just a hallucination?