Several families from different families live under the same roof to save money.

Pip is just your average wee guy – happy with his lot and not much of a complainer (though you really wouldn’t blame him if he was!). Regularly tortured and terrified, in what is, it must be said, a truly hard life, he still finds time to laugh, smile and dream of a brighter future, even though no-one expects anything of him. Or so he thinks…

An optimistic woman attempts to persevere and prosper after being betrayed by a once trusted friend.

Young Seo Man-deok has to unravel the plot against his new bride to clear her name.

After her mother dies, Jung-hie goes to Seoul to live with her father and his family. He allows her to stay with the condition that she never reveals that he is her father.

Eun-a resists allowing herself to move on after her boyfriend breaks up with her. Even after he marries, she continues to hope that they will get back together.

A man's family violently opposes his plan to marry a poor girl. The girl's mother is so disappointed and humiliated that she dies. His parents arrange for him to marry a politician's daughter but later learn that his bride-to-be may be his half-sister.

A man goes to Hong Kong to locate his long lost elder brother. There he meets a mysterious woman and falls into a romance that seems doomed from the start

Yeong-mi escapes from the juvenile training camp where she was forced to stay and rescues Yun-hie, who was about to throw herself under a train. Because they resemble each other, they decide to trade places and live the other's life

A man seperated from his wife during the Korean War eventually remarries. However, when his first wife manages to locate him, he attempts to keep two households--an arrangement that makes no one happy