Set in Korea under Japanese rule period. In 1923, an odd rumor spreads that around 6,000 Koreans are massacred after the Great Kanto Earthquake. In order to conceal this event, the Japanese Ministry decides that they need another big issue to divert people's attention. They then pick Park Yeol who's active in the anti-Japanese movement at Bullyeongsa Temple to be the center of the new scandal.
Park Yeol, aware of Japan's scheme,