After landing operations, U.N. soldiers enter a village and violate Jeon-Rae. The villagers ostracize her but Jeon-Rae and her son Man-sik, struggle on in poverty. A U.S. military base is set up across the river and the prostitutes who service the soldiers set up a whore town nearby. At her wits end, Jeon-Rae seeks the advice of Yong Nyo and Soon-duk; two of the prostitutes. The Western cultural influence causes disorder to break out. The tension between the villagers and the whores reaches it's peak following the deaths of several village children. Will either side win the war between them? What will be left of the town? And will Jeon-Rae and Man-sik ever forgive being ostracized?—Samb Hicks