Wol-ra decides that she wants to have a baby, but she does not necessarily want to get married. She sets out to find a man of intellect and talent so she can bear a child with these qualities.

东镇爱上了年长自己的女人明子，然而明子却深爱着东京留学的柳民浩。于是，东镇也决定去日本留学。本是为爱赴日的东镇在那里加入了共产党，成为了一个恐怖分子，为了实施暗杀日本长官的计划，他留在了俄罗斯的库页岛。在这里的他遇到了已经成为咖啡店老板娘的明子，并得知她坎坷的经历。原来，明子为了吸毒成性的未婚夫柳民浩，被卖春组织贩卖到了库页岛。后来，东镇在当地发起罢工运动，在明子的帮助下逃生。又过了很长时间，东镇和明子在日本重逢，因思念故乡而彼此安慰。明子，这个已经加入了新的国籍，命运坎坷的女人最终无法回到自己的国土上。

Min Ji-suk runs a "ticket bar"where customers can purchase tickets for certain "services"in the town of Sokcho in Gangwon-do. She hires Miss Yang (Ahn So-young), Miss Hong (Lee Hye-young), and Se-young (Jeon Se-young) through the employment agency. Miss Yang and Miss Hong, who are well experienced in this type of business, are used to accepting propositions from customers. But Se-young, who is dating a college student named Min-su, rejects all requests for sexual favors. When Min-su professes to having problems with his tuition and finances, Se-young reassures him that she will procure the necessary funds for him. When the bar's clientele begins to dwindle because of Se-young, Ji-suk reprimands her severely. Se-young develops a close relationship with a Captain Pak and even allows him to sleep with her. She asks Captain Pak to find Min-su employment on a boat, but when Min-su comes to Sokcho for his new job, he sees how Se-young has been making her living. Shocked, he turns his back on the job and leaves. When he eventually returns to Sokcho, he scathingly denounces Se-young's morality and severs their relationship. Decades ago, Ji-suk had stumbled into the bar business in a desperate effort to support her husband, who was serving time in prison; she later left him voluntarily out of shame and moral degradation. Concerned that Se-young will end up with the same fate, Ji-suk asks Min-su to meet with her. She begs him not to abandon Se-young, but he flatly refuses. Ji-suk reacts by pushing Min-su into the sea, and suffers a mental breakdown that lands her in a psychiatric institution.

Summer, 1983. The entire nation is glued to their television sets as KBS airs a special live broadcast dedicated to reuniting family members who were separated during the Korean War. Hwa-young (Kim Jee-mi), who has been keeping a prosperous and harmonious household, decides to search for her lost son, at the recommendation of her husband (Jeon Mu-song). On the way to the TV station, Hwa-young begins to reminisce about the past. At the end of Japan's occupation of Korea, Hwa-young's family moves to a small village called Kilsodeum, in Hwanghae-do. Hwa-young (Lee Sang-a) soon becomes an orphan, and is taken in by her father's friend, Kim Byung-do. She falls in love with his son Dong-jin (Kim Jung-suk), who treats her with warmth and affection. One rainy day, Hwa-young and Dong-jin consummate their love and Hwa-young gives birth to a child. But the Korean War breaks out and their respective fates take them away from each other. While looking for her son in the rendezvous plaza outside the TV station, Hwa-young reunites with Dong-jin (Shin Seong-il), who has been waiting for her all his life at the expense of the family he built with the daughter (Oh Mi-yeon) of the man who saved his life. The two of them run into Seok-chul (Han Ji-il), a man who has been searching for his parents, and sense that he is their lost son. They go to visit him, but his rude behavior the product of a life spent in the gutters of society causes them to feel a sense of estrangement. Seok-chul's scar and a DNA test virtually confirm that he is their son, but Hwa-young turns her back on him, saying that she will not believe anything less than proofpositive of his parentage. Dong-jin turns away also, as he tosses Hwa-young's contact information in the garbage. As she drives along the road, Hwa-young stops her car for a moment and weeps, but soon continues on her way.

导演林权泽为游击队员之子，他首次把自己的经历和现代史融合到一起。人称「歪鼻子」残留共党的游击队员白贡山（Choi Yun Seoko饰）被捕，刑警宋基烈（金熙羅饰）在押送他的路上不慎令其逃跑。从此，宋基烈辞去工作，倾家荡产，展开了三十年的追踪。三十年后，两人都已是身患疾 病的老人，再次狭路相逢，宋基烈准备带白贡山返回乡，为自己当年的失误雪耻…… 二战后朝鲜反共游击战成为林权泽不少电影的题材，《歪鼻子》有别于后期在稗牙谷千军万马的史实大制作《太白山脉》（1994），以倒序的手法和微观的视野描绘南北对立的两个男人故事，宋刑警终生逮捕游击队员歪鼻子为任，以洗当年被军方开除的污名；歪鼻子浪迹天涯，却在临终的收留所再遇死敌。作为游击队队员的儿子，林权泽站在人性的立场上，以不偏不倚的态度批判南北之战残酷的斗争，反思战争给人的生命、尊严和人性带来的伤害。

朝鲜李朝时代，申姓大户人家的长孙与妻子结婚十二年不育，作为一家之主的祖母担心无人继承族谱，但碍于儒教礼法，申家不便纳妾，祖母遂接受建议，准备雇佣种女为家族延续香火。在精通相面术的委托人引领下，申家从从事接种的种女村落中选出了时年十七、健康的处女可娜（姜受延 饰）作为种女。可娜为替母亲分忧，承担下为申家延续香火的任务。初次接触，因可娜和主人心存芥蒂，一切机械而无味，然而他们在后续的接触中竟然爱上了彼此，主人忘记了与妻子的恩爱，频繁与可娜相会，这段关系引起了正在忙于为孙媳伪装怀孕假象的家族的不满，可娜受到责罚，而这只是不幸的开始……

女教师到某穷乡僻壤赴任。整个村子村民相互都有姻亲关系。令女教师分外奇怪的是村子里还住着一个游手好闲的无赖汉。原来，这个无赖汉身份特殊，他的任务是满足全村妇女的性要求……某日，等待未婚夫的女教师遭到无赖汉的强暴……