老巫婆去世，儿子旭秀和媳妇接过了老母亲的衣钵。虽然，旭秀希望成为一个渔夫，但他还是遵守母亲的遗言，开始制作弓箭。村里有一个无恶不作的高利贷主一直对旭秀媳妇不怀好意，经常欺负旭秀。媳妇买了一艘渔船，在船主一栏署名丈夫。谁知，在高利贷主的阴谋下，旭秀死在了暴风中。知道一切真相后，旭秀媳妇将弓箭上弦瞄准了高利贷主。高利贷主血流成河，终于倒下，旭秀媳妇的嘴角浮现出一丝凄冷的笑意。

A bank employee dissatisfied with the casualness and secrecy of her relationship with her boyfriend, a superior at work, is suddenly given a few days of vacation.

The movie begins with the mysterious death of a journalistic photographer named Kim Cheol-hun. Veteran police detective Park (Kim Seung-ho) teams up with a young, intellectual detective (Kim Seong-ok) to investigate the people surrounding Kim. His landlord, his mother, and his younger sister offer no substantial clues. Finding a letter to Kim from novelist Han Jeong-wu, the detectives meet with Han, who tells them about a novel entitled The General's Mustache that Kim wrote. The novel tells the story of a great general who liberates his nation. The people grow mustaches like the general's as a tribute to him, but the protagonist refuses to do so and becomes an outcast. After talking to Han, the detectives find nothing suspicious about him. Instead, they go to former dancer Sin-hye (Yoon Jung-hee), who used to live with Kim, and hear the details about his life. According to Sin-hye, Kim was a romantic, but he could not adapt to reality. Sin-hye had fallen for his romantic sensibility, but eventually she tired of him and left him. Kim's death occurred shortly afterwards. The police rule his death a suicide.

1967 film by Kim Su-yong

It's a timely story about the romantic escapade of a top woman corporate executive, flamboyantly decorated with baroque compositions and provocative emotions, Like Jean Luc Godard making an adaptation of a Harlequin romance.

2010 film directed by Lee Chang-dong