Young-hwan who is the descendant of a fallen noble family takes pure and innocent Adada as his wife. Because of Young-hwan's selfish desires, Adada seeks out her childhood friend Su-ryong. But he, too, becomes a slave to desire. Adada protests and dies by drowning.
While the government watches everything and everyone, Myonggil and Pyongsok organize a movie club called The Magnificent Seven. Later in life, after Myonggil is released from military service, he goes to visit his childhood friend and finds out that their lives have taken very different paths.
After failing to enter a prestigious university for the second time to the dismay of her overbearing mother, Sung Joo enlists in the army dreaming of a whole new world.
