This film whose main characters are marionettes deals with the old Korean folktale "Heungbu and Nolbu." Greedy elder brother Nolbu kicks his good-natured brother Heungbu out of home and takes all the inheritance from their father. Poor but good man Heungbu one day cures a swallow's broken leg and...
Told in three parts, Yong Min, who prior to the liberation of Korea received all sorts of humiliations and insults while serving at the landowner, becomes the owner of the land in socialist Korea.
