Chosun Kinema

Young peasant Seong-bo and his wife, unable to bear the poverty, leave for their hometown. After 20 years of hard work, you will be able to enjoy a more leisurely life. They had two sons. The eldest son, Cheol-su, resembled his father and was a hard worker, but his younger son, Cheol-min, was a playboy. Her mother, who was struggling with her younger son, dies, and her family begins to decline. The father leaves a letter to his two sons and sets out on a hopeless journey. The two sons are shocked and weeping, vowing to make a fresh start.

Based on the novel of the same title by Kwang-Soo Lee (Yi Kwang-su), published in 'Maeil Shinbo' in 1917. The plot is based on the relationship of three young people - English teacher Hyeong-sik Lee, dancer Young-chae Park and Hyun-soo Kim, the daughter of a wealthy presbyter. Left an orphan in early childhood, Hyeong-sik was brought up in the house of Master Park. From childhood, Park predicted his daughter Young-chae as Hyeong-sik's wife. Master Park was a patriot, and when the Japanese invaders came to power, he was illegally convicted and imprisoned. His daughter Young-chae became a kisaeng to earn money to send packages to the prison. At this time, Hyeong-sik and Young-chae are moving away from each other, and Hyun-soo appears in the life of Hyeong-sik, whom he fell in love with and is going to marry her.

Pro-Japanese propaganda film to educate the people in Korea. The old man, convinced that "the expansion of production is the duty of the entire population," faints while alone carrying water to the family's rice field. At the request of the old man to spare no effort to expand production to help the emperor, the women gather together to carry water to the old man's field.

Na Woon-gyu plays the role of Nicolai Park, a veteran of the Russian army, who has returned to Korea from European battlefields. Broke, hungry, and unable to find employment, he is taken in as a boarder by Kim Chang-ho. Chang-ho's friend, Cha-duk becomes romantically involved with Hae-ok, who had sold herself to support her parents. Cha-duk's wife, Yeong-ja becomes involved with Nicolai, who rejects her proposal to run away with him. The romantic complications spiral until Yeong-ja kills Cha-duk. The film ends with Nicolai departing for destinations unknown while the other boarders bid him farewell.

The film concerns a student, Ch'oe Yeongjin, who has become mentally ill after being imprisoned and tortured by the Japanese for his involvement in the March 1, 1919 protest against the Japanese colonial rule.

The heroine, a girl of marriageable age named Yu, married a thirteen-year-old fiancé, but he died three years later. Twenty years later, Yu adopts a child from a relative named Dong-gil. Dong-gil's siblings, wishing to inherit his legacy, spread rumors that Yu is having an affair with the village teacher.