Choi Yu-Jeong

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.

Gilnam, a diligent taxi driver plans to propose to his girlfriend, Yu-jeong. However, when Gilnam takes off to meet Yu-jeong with armful roses, he gets in a hit-and-run accident and dies on the spot. One night, forty-nine days later, in a graveyard, a set of headlights emerges. A mysterious taxi drives off into the city. The driver of this taxi is none other than Gilnam, but he is no longer a part of the living and he races through the city streets in search of his beloved.

En la China del siglo XIV, al fin de la Dinastía Yuan, toda la región china se encontraba bajo dominio mongol. Los mongoles, los Han y los inmigrantes koryo (los antiguos coreanos) se veían envueltos en conflictos raciales y sufrían las tensiones ocasionadas por la rivalidad existente entre los nobles locales. La película se inicia con un encarnizado enfrentamiento entre soldados mongoles y guerreros Ten liderados por el imparable Jahalang. Pese a su aplastante victoria, el rostro de Jahalang parece afligido. Mientras contempla a la mujer llamada Sullie y a su hijo en la mansión de éstos, la acción retrocede hasta la primavera de 1343, en la fortaleza china Habook, en Sanmaehyun. Jinha, hijo de un inmigrante koryo, y Sullie, hija ilegítima de un comandante mongol, forjan una sólida amistad basada en una confianza total.