A wife, unable to escape anxiety and despair, becomes pathologically obsessed, suspecting her husband will leave her. The husband, unable to endure his wife any longer, finds them both sinking deeper into an inescapable swamp.

After killing his abusive father to protect his mother, Gyutark serves his youth in prison. Released into a hostile world where he and his ailing mother face persecution from villagers, Gyutark flees to find work at a distant warehouse. When his mother collapses and needs expensive surgery, his meager wages aren't enough. Desperate to save the only person who ever loved him, he crosses into the criminal underworld...