女大学生美媛（赵美령）到郑镇九（金胜浩）家做家教。表面上看，这是一个富裕美好的家庭，但美媛却隐隐感觉到一股阴霾。高三学生老三仁植与美媛相处融洽，还会和她分享家里人的事情，美媛也在与他们的相处中逐渐了解这个家庭。孩子们的母亲（李嫔华）看起来太年轻，不像是成年子女们的妈妈，实际上她只是老幺润爱亲生母亲，其他孩子的母亲各不相同，而父亲也很少照顾家庭。可以说是“阿飞女孩”的英爱（严安澜）毕业于艺术大学音乐系，嘴里念叨着法国存在主义哲学，骑马、兜风、谈恋爱，虚度光阴，还对家人冷嘲热讽。长子正锡（崔峰）是一名拳击手，去年比赛失利后，今年……

Three sisters live together with their wealthy, widowed mother. They compete for her affection in the hopes of inheriting her property. One sister is married to a shiftless lump and the other to a conman.

A family becomes seperated during the evacuation of Seoul. Eventually the father starts another family. Several years later, he hires a tutor for his young children and is delighted to discover that he has hired his daughter.