Ok-hui lives with her grandmother, her mother and the maid. People refer to their house as the "Widow House" because all three adult women who live there are widows. One day, a teacher named Mr. Han moves into the house as a lodger.
Ignoring her mother, a modern young woman makes her way to Seoul to make a living, but it isn't long before she regrets not taking her mother's advice.
A young widower is continuously forced to try to convince his stingy father to help invest in a farm in the country for the future of his daughter.
After 14 years of self-imposed exile, a man returns to his hometown and discovers it has been dramatically industrialized. He searches for his ex-girlfriend but learns that she is already married to someone else.