Bok-ja, a helper at a hot spring resort, asks her sister Bok-hui who lives in the city to help out the hot spring business when the place gets busy. One day the son of the resort owner from Seoul visits the hot spring. Bok-hui is infatuated with him. Meanwhile an elderly client eyes on Bok-ja, setting her up with his son to marry.
After coming to Seoul a woman is seduced by an old pimp to become a prostitute. But soon she leaves the place and saves money by working hard in a public bathhouse as a masseuse. Though she has a dream to open a small beauty salon, the dream is crushed when she loses all her money by a swindler. But she never gets frustrated.
In order to have help in raising his three children and in taking care of his house, a widowed principal of a junior highschool hires a live-in housekeeper. Unknown to him, the new servant is actually the mother of the man's eldest daughter who had been abandoned as an infant
Mrs Yun has been raising her daughter alone since she was divorced from her husband 17 years ago. They had broken up over her husbands one-night stand. When her ex-husband reappears in her life, Yun strong will, self-confidence and clear belief in right and wrong begin to unravel
Gu (Kim Seung-ho), who manages the eastern branch of Samcheolli Transportation Company, is the head of a large family comprising his father, his mother (Bok Hye-suk), his wife (Joo Jeung-nyeo), his son Yeong-gu, and his daughter Yeong-hui (Do Kum-bong). On the very day Yeong-hui starts her new job at his office, Gu is humiliated by Director Song (Kim Hee-gap), who berates him i...