An actor looks around him and is disgusted by the greed and materialism he sees in those whom he used to respect.

采参人罗温宝一家生活虽然拮据,彼此的感情却十分好,幸福满足的其乐融融。有一天，“我找到了！”兴奋的罗温宝突然激动地喊了起来，原来他在深山里发现了盼了多年希望有朝一日能找到的价值连城的人参。拥有不菲人参的罗温宝顿时有了一夜暴富的希望，他开始盘算好好享受人生的计划。但村里贪心的人也开始觊觎罗温宝的人参，虎视眈眈着怎么把它夺过来。干材药局的江干事设诡计欲以低廉的价钱把人参买去，罗温宝为了躲避众人的追夺只...

An obstetrician Jeon Dong-Kuk' wife gives birth to a cat baby. Taken a pessimistic view of this, he replaces the baby with a newborn baby in the hospital. Nineteen years later, developing a new remodeling technology, Dong-Kuk comes back to Korea and has his daughter's birthday party. At that time, a cat woman, Yun-Ok comes to Dong-Kuk and he undergoes a plastic operation on her face. Then, his daughter, So-Young's face turns into a cat's. When Dong-Kuk operates on Yun-Ok's face again, So-Young gets back her face. Yun-Ok tries to kill Dong-Kuk. Finally, Dong-Kuk and his real daughter Yun-Ok die together.

When the eldest grandson of Mr. Kang (Choi Seong-ho), a prominent local figure in the village of Suri in Hwanghae-do, becomes afflicted with a mysterious, life-threatening illness, the entire household is plunged in anxiety. The imminent death of the direct heir to the family name is a serious matter indeed, since the Kangs have a history of seeing their sons die young a fact that has resulted in a household teaming with widows. The family matriarch (Hwang Jung-seun) calls in the most famous shamans and has them perform healing rituals, but the illness shows no sign of improving. The family steward recommends that they bring in Ok-hwa (Yoo Ji-in), who is renowned for her extraordinary spiritual powers. While she is performing the ritual, a large snake drops down from the eaves of the house and causes a commotion. Amazingly, the incident brings about a dramatic improvement in the condition of Mr. Kang's grandson. The household buzzes with glad excitement, with everyone clinging to Ok-hwa and asking her to cure the disease outright. But Ok-hwa searches all around as if possessed by a spirit and discovers a sinister-looking gourd bottle buried deep in the ground in the pine forest. This bottle hides a bloody secret. Some twenty years ago, there was, in the Kang family, a young widow by the name of Lee (Kim Yun-kyeong). Bound by strict moral codes, Lee was living a lonely life of enforced celibacy. She had taken to stabbing her thigh with a small silver knife every night in order to suppress her frustrated desires, but the wound became infected and she came on the verge of death. According to family tradition, the Kangs removed Lee to an isolated hut (called pi-makin Korean), and left her there to await her own death. The family matriarch, wishing to grant her daughter-in-law one final wish, arranged for her to spend a night with the hut keeper, Sam-dol (Nam Koong-won). Through Sam-dol's devoted care, Lee miraculously recovered and the two developed deep feelings for each other. The matriarch welcomed her daughter-in-law's recovery at first, but became enraged when she found out about Lee's adulterous relationship with Sam-dol. As punishment, the Kang family secretly murdered both Sam-dol and Lee. Ok-hwa, who is in fact Sam-dol's daughter, was merely pretending to be a shaman in order to exact revenge for her father. Possessed by a real spirit, she attempts to kill Mr. Kang inside the hut but lets him go unscathed. She enters the hut, sets it on fire, and dies in the flames.