A single father struggling to make his comeback as a screenwriter falls in love with one of his students. Meanwhile his son, studying to become a chef, falls in love with his teacher. Love is great for creativity, but it comes with a price.
A young boy mourns the death of his father, and begins a quest to find his mother. He encounters many people on the way who quote Buddhist precepts: an eccentric monk, a girl who grows up into a young woman, a prison inmate, a foul-mouthed doctor and the young son of a hard drinking astronomer. Each of them tell the boy to seek someone to help him find the truth and his mother.
Tae-young is a former fighter who now runs a relatively legitimate disco club business. He has a best friend named Joon-suk who runs a bakery with In-hye and is always ready to help Tae-young. When Tae-young refuses to let drug lord Ma Gun-soo use his disco club as a place of business, Gun-soo injects him with drugs and sets him up to the police. Tae-young serves time for a crime he did not commit. After his release, Tae-young attacks Gun-soo's son Tae-ho. Gun-soo retaliates by attacking Joon-suk and In-hye. He tortures and kills Joon-suk. Having lost everything to Gun-soo and his men, Tae-young plans one final battle. He alerts the police to come at a specified moment and prepares for a fight to the finish.