A young couple become seperated on opposite sides of the border while the UN divides the country into North and South Korea after WWII

Byeol Agi's plans to take revenge on the killer of her father hit a snag when she learns that the killer is the father of her boyfriend.

Forced to work in a coal mine by the Japanese occupying forces, a man blinds a foreman with a stone and makes his escape. After national liberation from Japan, the foreman spends the next ten years searching for the man who blinded him so he can have his revenge

Kanemodo is severly injured by the man whom he considered his father because he refused to join the communist party. His girlfriend, Genichi, goes to Seoul intending to reveal information about the communist activities in Japan. This places her life and the lives of her family at risk and only Kanemodo can save them.