About the last days of the government of Syngman Rhee, about the struggle against his regime of Seoul students.
Told in three parts, Yong Min, who prior to the liberation of Korea received all sorts of humiliations and insults while serving at the landowner, becomes the owner of the land in socialist Korea.
Having been arrested by the American forces, a Korean engineer tries to save a North-Korean engine from the possession of the enemy by pretending he is working for them.