Chun-ja meets Dae-jin who has recently separated from his wife, Yeong-suk. Chun-ja and Dae-jin live together as husband and wife and have a son together. But three years later, Dae-jin decides to get back together with his wife and he takes his young son with him. Chun-ja tries to be understanding about the situation until she hears that her son has died.

Innocent Bok-nyeo is sold at 18 years old to an elderly widower who sends her to work in the salt mines. There she is raped by the supervisor. Becoming very cynical about life, Bok-nyeo becomes the mistress of a couple of rich men, Choi and Wang. In this way, she becomes accustomed to the high life. However she panics and takes desperate steps when one of her sources of income is about to cut her off.