Based on the life of Kim Won-shik who was a judge in ancient Korea. Travelling around the country, he tried cases involving human sacrifices, peasant uprisings, and revenge
The youngest son from a wealthy family becomes fed up with the abuses his matoher and elder brother heap on him. He leaves the main house and goes to live on the family farm. There he learns that he is actually the son of his father and the housekeeper.
A young prostitute falls in love with with a man from a respectable house and the two move in together. But on hearing the objections to this situation raised by his family, the woman makes up her mind to leave him.