- 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…
- 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
- Taking a year off from wokr to study for the bar exam, Cheong-chan finds his life interrupted by his sister and her turbulant marriage. He also finds himself falling in love with his childhood friend, Da-hye.