Changshin-dong is mostly made up of shabby residential alleys. Kim Min-kyu climbs telephone poles scattered in the dismal neighborhood. Recently released from prison, he works as an electrician under the watchful eye of his probation officer. His only joy is carving the Namsan Tower out of soap bars, on those poles. He notices one day that there is an intruder in his private world. Someone has started posting missing person leaflets. Min-kyu begins to remove them one by one. But to his consternation, the stranger keeps replacing the ones he has removed. Da-hae's only goal in life is to find her missing brother. She lives hand-to-mouth but that is the least of her problems. She is also slowly losing her sight. Min-kyu and Da-hae find themselves drawn to one another by their pain and loneliness to somehow find a way to heal each other.
It is love at first sight for Hyung-joon, a certified public accountant, when he sees Si-jeong, a flight attendant. Despite their feelings for one another, Si-jeong ends up marrying Hyung-joon's friend Tae-seob. Hyung-joon, in turn marries, his first love Eun-ah. But when he hears about Tae-seob and Si-jeong's divorce he is thrown into a state of emotional conflict. Before Hyung-joon can rekindle their romance, Si-jeong marries a baseball player named Kang-hyuk. After numerous failed attempts at finding true love, Hyung-joon realizes the true meaning of love.
A comic book store in Garibong-dong is run by a beautiful woman (Choi Myoung-gil) better known as Madam. This store stays open late into the night, thus attracting varied types of people such as gangsters and hustlers.
Two North Korean terrorists posing as Japanese tourists under the names of Shin Icho and Ma Yumi, blow up a Korean Airline flight enroute to Baghdad. When investigators catch up with the two in Bahrain, they take suicide pills but Ma Yumi is revived and forced to stand trial for her crimes.
As a result of the collapse of many debts, the old man, a creditor to Wolyoung, violates the essence of Wolyoung. When she comes to the temple, she is sold to the fire by the merchant Deokbae and the rumor about the off - white merchandise is spread on the palude. Wolyoung is sent to the temple to get rid of the sensitivity of Lee, who has authority on the rumor that he can get the rejuvenation when he joins with Wolhyun. Wolyong feels a meeting in his life, leaves pure film and devotes his life to the true love.
Han Wu-song, an antique collector, gets killed while appraising a bronze horse rider statue which trader Wang Dae-in has stolen from a tomb. Dae-in dies on the scene and Wu-song leaves the killer's name on the cave wall before he dies. Dae-in's son Wang Gak thinks Wu-Song killed his father and fights with his son Jung-pa. Trader Kwan and her daughter Mi-ryung stop the fight. Jung-pa and Mi-ryung's love is disturbed by Ju-yang. Gak and Jung-pa chase him to find Wu-song's body with Ju-yang's name on the wall but Mi-ryung appeals them not to kill...
