Yi-su, a 37 year-old professor, can't forget her first love Joon-ho who's missing in action in Vietnam. She meets Hyun-woo one day, who look surprising like Joon-ho. Hyun-woo investigates Yi-su who lives in the past and discovers that her pain stems from the Vietnam war. Hyun-woo can't help falling in love with her even though he's a student. On a trip to Busan, he confesses his love for her. But he soon realizes that the only man for her is Joon-ho. Min-cheol who fought along with Joon-ho sells his belongings to Yi-su at a high price. He tells her that Joon-ho died in a fire and they argue aggressively. Min-cheol commits suicide afterwards and Yi-su is also found dead in the campus pool.
Jeom-rye works as a sharecropper to make a living for her good-for-nothing husband and her son Yong. But the village men are always trying to seduce her. When she rebuffs her landlord's advances, she is wrongly accused by his wife and is forced to leave. Sam-su, the servant who is smitten with her, offers to lend her husband, Deok-hi, money for her affections. Deok-hi tries to sell her off to Sam-su but Jeom-rye gets him arrested for trafficking humans. Sam-su realizes Jeom-rye's sincerity and drops the charges and Deok-hi repents his ways only too late. He dies of an illness. When her son Yong dies from indigestion after eating rice cakes, she goes off the edge.
The story of three women of three countries, who are deserted and killed by men, and whose spirits, in turn, take revenge on the wicked men.
Dong-pyo
첫 사랑에서 사내에게 버림받은 경아는 천성의 밝음과 명랑성으로 슬픔을 이겨내고 중년의 이만준의 후처로 들어간다. 그러나 임신했던 과거 때문에 헤어지게 되고 술을 가까이하게 되어 동혁이라는 남자에 의해 호스테스로 전락하게 된다. 문호라는 사람좋은 화가를 알게 된 경아는 곧 그와 동거 생활을 하게되나 심한 알콜 중독 증세와 자학에 빠진 문호는 그녀를 다시 사랑할 수 없다는 사실을 깨닫고, 새벽이 되도록 경아의 잠든 모습을 지켜보다가 가지고 있던 돈을 경아의 머리맡에 놓아두고 방을 빠져나오고 만다. 그리고 일년이 지난 어느 눈내리는 밤에 길거리에서 발견되는 어느 젊은 여자의 죽음으로 하여 착하고 천진하고 명랑했던 경아의 짧은 생애는 무책임한 이 도시의 우리들 앞에서 사라진다.
