The main character, a wealthy family man, falls in love at first sight and leaves his wife. In the end, he squanders his fortune and, abandoned by his beloved, tries to return to his ex-wife, but she has already cut her hair in a nun.
The film concerns a student, Ch'oe Yeongjin, who has become mentally ill after being imprisoned and tortured by the Japanese for his involvement in the March 1, 1919 protest against the Japanese colonial rule.
Bo-shim's father sends her to a rich man to be his concubine. Her lover, Geum-ryong, becomes a Buddhist monk in the hope of forgetting her but with little success
