A single father struggling to make his comeback as a screenwriter falls in love with one of his students. Meanwhile his son, studying to become a chef, falls in love with his teacher. Love is great for creativity, but it comes with a price.
A young boy mourns the death of his father, and begins a quest to find his mother. He encounters many people on the way who quote Buddhist precepts: an eccentric monk, a girl who grows up into a young woman, a prison inmate, a foul-mouthed doctor and the young son of a hard drinking astronomer. Each of them tell the boy to seek someone to help him find the truth and his mother.
Tae-young is a former fighter who now runs a relatively legitimate disco club business. He has a best friend named Joon-suk who runs a bakery with In-hye and is always ready to help Tae-young. When Tae-young refuses to let drug lord Ma Gun-soo use his disco club as a place of business, Gun-soo injects him with drugs and sets him up to the police. Tae-young serves time for a crime he did not commit. After his release, Tae-young attacks Gun-soo's son Tae-ho. Gun-soo retaliates by attacking Joon-suk and In-hye. He tortures and kills Joon-suk. Having lost everything to Gun-soo and his men, Tae-young plans one final battle. He alerts the police to come at a specified moment and prepares for a fight to the finish.
The weak Dal-Ho lives in solitude isolated by the reality. His clinging to women is his struggle to escape from the sense of alienation. However, his simple and openhearted love affair fails all the time. Therefore, his neighbor considers him as a philanderer. The love with Seon-Hee is clumsy. Eun-Kyeong leaves him behind, because she thinks that he has no future. Mi-Na and Kyeong-Ja boycott his estheticism and pursuit of justice. However, Dal-Ho challenges for the pure future and his beloved Eun-Kyeong comes back to him.
