20-year-old Jeong-hee doesn't go to college and works part-time. She goes to meet Min-young, her old high school roommate, for the first time in a while and wants to play with her as before. However, Min-young, a college student, is busy sending correction emails for her credits and feels uncomfortable by Jeong-hee's visit.
В центре это истории находятся три персонажа: пенсионер Чансик, его парализованная жена Кильсон и её сиделка Сокок, китаянка-нелегал. Напряжение начинает расти, когда у Кильсон появляются пролежни. Дочь Чансика, женщина средних лет, опасается, что Сокок недостаточно заботится о больной. Сын Чансика ничем не помогает и лишь переживает из-за старых семейных неурядиц. Чансик предлагает жениться на Сокок, чтобы та могла на законных основаниях получить визу, и вот тогда-то наружу вырываются всё плохо скрываемые семейные обиды.
Kyung-hye is having a minor friction with her daughter Ye-shin, who is going through puberty every day by day. Moreover, both Ye-shin and Kyung-hye are on edge because Ye-shin seems to have a boyfriend. But one day, Kyung-hye sees Ye-shin and her best friend Su-jeong kissing in front of her house.
Bohee, a middle school student who lives with his mother learns one day that his father is alive. Feeling betrayed by his own mother, Bohee runs away from home and visits his half-sister Namhee with his best friend Nokyang to collect clues about his father.
A storm is coming; the winds are getting strong. The real source of the ominous winds lies with Jina, who finds the strange word 'LingLing' written in her father’s notebook. She suspects he is cheating on her mother, who appears to be bored with life and fills the house with potted plants as if to show for her apathy. The film too is riddled with images of humid air and foul-smelling water, impure and overflowing. The sway of her father’s fishing pole and the flutters in Jina’s skirt seem perilous and unstable. When her anxiety and doubts finally come to a head, the family squarely face the rough downpour brought on by the storm. The director’s talent in boldly translating the characters desires and sensibilities into a narrative with powerful imagery is quite impressive.
A young girl finds her ideal type in a small bathhouse which runs by her mother. She is strongly attracted to something and awaits her. It is not possible to know whether the women's scent, which she has not yet had, is yearning for her.
A boy in early teens finds himself in danger of being demoted from his solo part in a choir due to his changing voice. He tries to fight against it, but to no avail.
