- Hyeon-shik, an underground rock singer whose songs touch the hearts of his fans due to their lonely lyrics, falls in love with a photo journalist. However, she breaks up with him just before their wedding and sends him down a road of drugs and alcohol abuse from which he may not recover
- Parentless, the oldest of five takes a job in a mill to support his younger siblings. He works hard but is stingy with the money he earns as he hopes to save it for his brothers and sister. However, his girlfriend is not so accepting of this situation
- Lee Jung-won leads a failed couop in 1884 and then flees for his life to Japan. He returns to Korea years later after conspiring with the Japanese government to kill the queen of Korea and pave the way for Japanese occupation which would last until the end of World War II.
- Agents from China try to disrupt the Hong Kong economy by flooding the market with counterfeit US dollars. South Korean underworld leaders and Norht Korean agents also want the plates to the phoney money. A South Korean double agent is working for one of these groups and plans to reveal all to the world
- Hwang-cheol misunderstands that his enemies are the Japanese colonial police after his gold is stolen, but he eventually realizes that his wealth has been taken by gangsters from Shanghai.
- Dong-cheol, a nightclub opwner, is threatened by a gangster who lusts after his wife. Dong-cheol accidently kills one of the gangster's henchmen in a fight and is sent to prison. This leaves his family vulnerable to the gangster's threats.
- 明宇（张赫）是一名性格温文尔雅、正直善良的中学老师，某日，当他见义勇为协助别人追捕小偷时，被正值休班的，性格刁蛮刚烈、嫉恶如仇的女警童珍（全智贤）误当是贼抓获，遂即，童珍对他实施大刑逼供，最后被证实无辜时，明宇已被童珍打得体无完肤。 伤势初愈后，明宇被学校派到红灯区辅导问题学生，警方也安排了人员保护他的安全，但令明宇…
