The film is first the funny chronicle of a cheeky swindle. A friend of Ki-woo asks him to be his substitute as the private English teacher of the daughter of a successful businessman, Mr. Park. Ki-woo doubts he could make it since he has never passed an examination to enter higher…

A gang of street urchins loiter on the platforms of the Shimonoseki railways station, filching their ways to survive under the commandment of a one-legged lout as the Japanese struggle to get over their defeat at the hands of the Allied forces. They notice a repatriated soldier…