1888: a luthier, Vedder, has to step aside when his home, opposite the recently completed Central Station in Amsterdam, must yield for the planned Victoria Hotel. His cousin Anijs, pharmacist in the Northern provinces of the Netherlands, has gotten into a fix after illegal medical practices, and is looking for a way out. For himself and his wife Martha, but also for a colony of poor peat cutters whom he promises a future in the United States. Committed - or is it pride? - the two of them think up a scheme from which they all will fully benefit. With tragic consequences.

A man is driving in the middle of downtown, with his girlfriend, Ok-gyeong, sitting next to him. Ok-gyeong wants to talk about their problem and solve it but the man just wants it to pass by. Their relationship heads toward the direction that nobody expected…