- Dr Young-bin treats Mi-ae for alcohol poisoning and a drug overdose. After her recovery, they find themselves meeting often and realize that they have something in common--drinking. Mi-ae tries to get away from her abusive, unemployed lover to be with Young-bin, but when she succeeds she becomes miserable and her drug …
- The children of the ministers slain by Queen Min in her bid for power struggle against the corrupt despot as they seek to avenge their parents' deaths
- Mi-yeong becomes the head of the family after her mother dies. Her older brother suffers from cerebral palsy and her younger brother is very ill. To make her finances stretch more, Mi-yeong commits her elder brother to a state run asylum while she takes a job in a brothel to earn money for her younger brother's medicin…