Yong-jin
Youngbun, a middle-aged woman, leaves her grown stepchild for home after her husband died of chronic disease. She wants to live a new life. Although she’s poor, there is always hope in her loving and energetic self. Young female Han-hee is a Pilates instructor. She, too, is poor, but is diligent and obedient in her daily life.
Chul-ki
A girl of about ten carries a little suitcase when arriving at an intercity bus terminal. She was abandoned by her mother a week ago. Not knowing what to do and why her mother left her, she decides to find a man who might be her father and who she has never met before.
Hyung-ki
Sohyun, a runaway, is left alone after her close friend Jungho disappears. By accident, she gets to know a transgender woman named Jane. She joins Jane and her close-knit community of runaways, who are as comforting and loving as a real family. Sohyun feels happy and at peace. But her happiness does not last long. There is something wrong with Jane’s health.
Bar owner
Each night, a homeless girl stays in abandoned houses to get by. In the winter, she leaves the cold environs of Seoul and heads to Busan, eventually finding an empty house in an abandoned part of town. She starts looking for a way to make a living, but it’s difficult to find a job with no home address, no ID card, and no phone number. She ultimately does find work, but her employer takes advantage of her and ends up firing her without paying any wages. No one seems to be on her side in this harsh and abusive world.
Tae-hee
Sang-seok (Kim Sang-seok) is an actor whose career has stalled before it has even begun. He has never been in a major film production, he is completely unknown and though he wishes he could take part in the Busan International Film Festival his hopes are no more than pipe dreams. In an effort to help his situation, Sang-seok’s friends Jae-ho and Tae-hee suggest making a film with him as the star. However, when the movie is cancelled, utterly dejected Sang-seok heads to a karaoke bar to drown his sorrows. There he meets a beautiful woman, Hwa (Lee Hwa), and falling instantly for her all the pain of the failed film project is overtaken by thoughts of her. Baek Jae-ho’s nuanced first directorial feature has already been invited to a number of Korean film festivals, including BIFF.
Jeong-tae
The day Sang-seok's friend and Mi-so's boyfriend Jeong-woo tries to kill himself, Sang-seok can't take it because he is worried about Mi-so. He spends the night with her because she's doesn't feel right and stops contacting Jeong-woo from that day on. A while later Sang-seok runs into Jeong-woo with Mi-so by his side and can't help but feel jealousy and betrayal. He realizes himself and Mi-so have been roaming around the same spot and writes a scenario about the two of them spending a night together and offers her the leading role. Will this movie starring Sang-seok who's always waited to be chosen and Mi-so who was a kid actress, bring them a special time?
Waiting Room Player
Kim Sun-woo is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by a cold, calculative crime boss, Kang who assigns Sun-woo to a simple errand while he is away on a business trip; to shadow his young mistress, Hee-soo, for fear that she may be cheating on him with a younger man with the mandate that he must kill them both if he discovers their affair.