This is a melodrama depicting death, love, pain, and the hardships that an
innocent young man experiences in a violent society, where the meaning of
family vanishes because of industrialization. Mak-Dong finishes his military
service and is on the way home, when he helps Mi-Ae, who is being
harassed by gangsters. As a result, he misses his train. Mak-Dong arrives
home with her rosy scarf in his hand. Nobody welcomes Mak-Dong except
his big brother with polio. Mak-Dong except his big brother with polio. Mak-
Dong wishes he managed a good restaurant so that all the family members
could live together. So he goes to Seoul searching for work and goes to the
night club where Mi-Ae sings, to return her scarf. Mi-Ae is the mistress of
the gangster Bae Tae-Gon. She finds a job for Mak-Dong through Tae-Gon.
Mak-Dong begins to work in the parking lot and falls into the Family of
violence...