Orange Marmalade begins by showing a girl named Baek Ma-ri who dreams
about her gloomy childhood when all her friends turn away from her, a vampire.
Although humans and vampires have coexisted since three hundred years ago,
vampires are still discriminated against and considered a danger to most of humanity worldwide.
Ma-ri, who was still in elementary school, was always considered a monster by her
friends because she was a vampire.
Ma-ri, who dreamed of the bullying her schoolmates had done to her,
suddenly screamed and shocked everyone around her.
She immediately becomes the center of attention of those in the same carriage as her, including
a young man named Jung Jae-min, who realizes that Ma-ri is from the same school as him.
A man sitting next to Ma-ri had just sexually assaulted a woman sitting next to him.
Hearing Ma-ri's scream,
the man suddenly felt shocked and took his hand away from the woman's smooth thigh.
Since everyone was looking at Ma-ri, who was sitting next to him,
the man misunderstood and thought everyone was looking at him.
The man immediately evades by saying that he didn't do anything to Ma-ri.
But apparently,
the woman sitting next to him then spoke up and revealed the man's abuse to her.
The two of them had an argument, and the man accidentally dropped his milk box.
When Ma-ri was about to get the milk box, someone accidentally stepped on it,
and she was surprised because the box didn't contain milk but blood.
The blood splattered everywhere, including on Ma-ri's face.
Everyone was then shocked and panicked
because the man turned out to be a vampire.
When the train stopped at the station,
the man rushed out of the carriage and disappeared somewhere.
Jae-min then approaches Ma-ri, who still looks shocked by the incident.
He tries to help her, but Ma-ri reacts by smelling blood
and accidentally puts her mouth on Jae-min's neck as if to bite him.
However, Ma-ri immediately wakes up and rushes out of there
before she can no longer control her hunger for human blood.
Ma-ri finally arrives at school,
where she becomes a transfer student in Jae-min's class.
Ma-ri's classmates, who are watching a viral video about the appearance of a vampire on the train,
look shocked when they find out that Ma-ri was there.
They then surrounded Ma-Ri and asked about it.
They argue about humans and vampires living side by side.
After that, their teacher, a man named Yoon-jae, explained the history of vampires and humans
and the peace treaty between them three hundred years ago.
Even though humans can now coexist with vampires, many students dislike having vampires.
This is because they are afraid of vampires, which they consider monsters.
Yoon-jae then explains that humans don't need to
be afraid of vampires because they have a pact and will not prey on or harm humans.
However, Jae-min, who apparently doesn't like the presence of vampires around him,
doesn't care about the teacher's words because he really hates vampires.
During recess, the students were still discussing the existence of vampires.
Ma-ri, having lunch in the cafeteria,
tries to hide her identity as a vampire by eating garlic,
so her friends don't suspect her.
But of course, that only makes her nauseous, and Ma-ri throws up in the toilet.
The scene then switches and shows Ma-ri's father,
Baek Seung-hoon, making a drink from animal blood.
Because it is forbidden to suck human blood, the vampires use animal blood instead.
Turning back to Ma-ri, she seems to be going home from school by riding the train.
When Ma-ri falls asleep on the train, she suddenly smells a very sweet scent nearby.
She then approached it and subconsciously licked the neck of the person next to her.
Ma-ri then wakes up and is very surprised to find out that the person beside her is Jae-min.
She panicked and was embarrassed, then rushed away from there and accidentally dropped her
music book. Jae-min, who saw Ma-ri's book fell, then picked it up and put it away.
That night when he gets home, Jae-min takes Ma-ri's music book
and tries to play some of the songs on the guitar his mother gave him.
The next day, Jae-min then asks Ma-ri about what happened yesterday. But she doesn't remember what
happened. She doesn't even remember Jae-min, who is her classmate. As Jae-min approaches her, Ma-ri
sniffs the sweet scent again and finally remembers the embarrassing moment she licked Jae-min's neck.
Because Ma-ri already remembers it, Jae-min then returns her music book and tells her
to apologize to him. The scene then switches and shows Yoon-jae meeting Jae-min's mother,
Min-ha, to tell her about Jae-min's progress at school. Min-ha looks happy to see her son, even if
not in person. She is reluctant to meet Jae-min in person because he is still annoyed with his
mother when she decides to marry Yoon-jae, who is none other than a vampire and Jae-min's teacher.
Yoon-jae, now Jae-min's stepfather, then asks Jae-min to meet him at a cafe.
There, Yoon-jae suggests that Jae-min focuses on pursuing his dream of becoming a musician.
However, Jae-min seems to ignore Yoon-jae's words because he never accepted Yoon-jae's marriage to
his mother. When he was about to leave, Jae-min accidentally saw Ma-ri singing in the cafe while
playing the piano. Immediately, he was stunned by Ma-ri's very melodious voice when singing.
The next day at school, Jae-min then approaches Ma-ri and invites her to form a music band at
school. However, Ma-ri immediately refuses Jae-min's invitation because she doesn't want
to interact with humans too often. Elsewhere, Yoon-jae visits the residence of his nephew,
Shi-hoo, who gets a warning from the vampire society because he has been proven wrong.
Yoon-jae then asks Shi-hoo to move and attend the high school where he teaches. Knowing that
Jae-min has a great interest in music, Yoon-jae then took the initiative to create a school band.
He then asks a student named Jo A-ra to persuade Ma-ri to join the school band. However, A-ra,
who doesn't like Ma-ri because she managed to attract Jae-min's attention, then pranks Ma-ri
by dismantling her locker and instead assumes that Ma-ri is a vampire after finding bottled drinks
commonly consumed by vampires. A-ra then changes Ma-ri's locker key so she can't open her locker.
On the other hand, Ma-ri, who is starting to run out of energy, rushes to her locker to get a drink
bottle containing animal blood that she always drinks. However, Ma-ri can't open the locker,
so she can't drink the blood she needs. Ma-ri, who felt weak because she was starting to run
out of energy, then met with Jae-min and smelled the scent of his blood which was so fragrant and
sweet. Ma-ri, who felt that her body was starting to feel weak, almost bit Jae-min's neck to suck
his blood. But she immediately regained her senses and hurried away from there.
Ma-ri, starting to run out of energy, finally collapses unconscious. On the other hand,
Shi-hoo, who had just arrived at school, rushes to take the unconscious Ma-ri to the infirmary.
Shi-hoo, who turns out to be Ma-ri's childhood friend,
then gives her a drink containing animal blood so she can drink it.
After her body recovers, Ma-ri returns to school. However, she was forced to serve a
sentence for not wearing sports clothes because her locker could not be opened. But then, A-ra
innocently tells the teacher that she can open the locker, so Ma-ri gets scolded by the teacher
and is told to run around the field as punishment. It didn't stop there. A-ra
accuses Ma-ri of being the one who bullied her so that Ma-ri was often ostracized by her friends.
However, Jae-min and Shi-hoo then defend Ma-ri in front of their classmates, which irritates A-ra.
Shi-hoo and Jae-min had already known each other since they met when they were kids.
At that time, Shi-hoo met Jae-min, who was playing guitar alone,
and he then told Shi-hoo that he really hated vampires after his mother married a vampire.
Turning to the present, Shi-hoo, who now lives at Ma-ri's house, warns Ma-ri to be
careful with Jae-min because he hates vampires. One night, Ma-ri's younger brother, Joseph,
takes Shi-hoo for a walk in the park. However, not long after, Joseph disappeared somewhere, so
Shi-hoo contacted Ma-ri to look for her brother's whereabouts. Jae-min, who accidentally met Ma-ri,
then found out that she was looking for her brother, so he decided to help her.
Jae-min finally runs into Joseph, hiding in the children's playground. Attracted
by the sweet scent of Jae-min's blood, Joseph couldn't help but want to bite Jae-min's neck.
However, Ma-ri finally got there on time, pulled Joseph from Jae-min's arms, and carried him away.
The next day at school, Ma-ri meets Yoon-jae, who tells her that he is a vampire.
Knowing that there are other vampires at the school besides her and Shi-hoo,
Ma-ri looks relieved and thanks Yoon-jae for helping her. Afterward, Ma-ri meets Jae-min in
the music room and thanks to him for helping her find her brother. She then apologizes to Jae-min
for always ignoring him, even though he has always been nice to her. Jae-min accepts Ma-ri's apology,
and they end up being friends. He then tells her about himself. Long story short, Ma-ri
and Shi-hoo finally decided to join the school band they called 'Orange Marmalade.' Since then,
they have always had regular rehearsals and were often invited to perform for an event.
As time goes on, Jae-min and Ma-ri become closer and spend a lot of time together.
One day, Jae-min meets his mother. But he seems indifferent to his mother and thinks of
her as an ordinary teacher. After that, Jae-min meets Ma-ri, waiting for him at the lighthouse.
She then expresses her love for him, and so does Jae-min, so they are finally officially dating.
To avoid solar radiation that can harm their bodies,
the vampires use a special serum that must be injected regularly.
One night, when Jae-min's mother has dinner with Yoon-jae, they discuss Shi-hoo's family. Yoon-jae
tells his wife that Shi-hoo still couldn't control his vampire nature as a child, so he attacked a
human. Because of this, Shi-hoo's parents tried to save Shi-hoo from accidentally revealing their
identity as vampires to the public, which was a serious violation of the law. On the other hand,
Shi-hoo, visiting Yoon-jae's house, overhears Yoon-jae's words about his parents.
Shi-hoo immediately feels angry that Yoon-jae has been hiding this fact from him. However,
unbeknownst to them both, Jae-min, who was about to meet his mother, turned out to be listening to
all of Shi-hoo and Yoon-jae's conversation and finally found out that Shi-hoo was a vampire.
After that, Shi-hoo, who was walking alone, was stopped by Jae-min,
who suddenly hit him. The two of them then get into a fierce fight, where Jae-min then
asks Shi-hoo to stay away from Ma-ri because he doesn't want Ma-ri to hang out with vampires.
The next day, Yoon-jae, who realized that Shi-hoo had disappeared,
then rushed to find his whereabouts while asking Ma-ri for help to find Shi-hoo.
While looking for Shi-hoo, Ma-ri accidentally runs into Jae-min and asks him where Shi-hoo is. She
begs Jae-min to help her find Shi-hoo because she's so worried about her childhood friend.
While Jae-min and Ma-ri were looking for Shi-hoo, they suddenly ran into a boy who needed help.
Jae-min immediately rushed to help the boy. However, after rescuing the boy, Jae-min's leg
gets caught in the net and is pulled up until his body hits a hard object causing him to be injured
and unconscious. Ma-ri saw this, then tried to help Jae-min by using her vampire powers.
However, Shi-hoo notices this from a distance and immediately comes to prevent Ma-ri from
revealing her true identity. Shi-hoo then uses his vampire powers to save Jae-min and then leaves.
Jae-min is covered in blood from his wounds, causing Ma-ri to react so that she can't contain
her urge to sniff Jae-min's bloodied neck. Ma-ri almost loses control of her hunger as a vampire
and is about to suck Jae-min's blood. But then, A-ra suddenly comes there and sees Ma-ri coming
closer to Jae-min's neck. Seeing this, she finally really suspects Ma-ri as a vampire.
After Jae-min is rushed to the hospital for intensive care, A-ra secretly unpacks Ma-ri's
bag and finds a drink package labeled tomato juice. A-ra, who felt suspicious,
checked the drink's contents and ensured that the red liquid was not tomato juice but blood.
She finally finds out that Ma-ri is actually a vampire.
Meanwhile, elsewhere, Ma-ri warns Shi-hoo that he will be hunted down by the Vampire
Control System (VCS) sooner or later for using his powers. He does realize that he
has committed a violation and asks her not to make the same mistake and always take care of herself.
A few days later, Jae-min, who has recovered from his injuries, tries to contact
Ma-ri. She has decided to distance herself from Jae-min because he hates vampires. Jae-min then
tries to find Ma-ri's whereabouts, but Ma-ri is nowhere to be found. Meanwhile, Shi-hoo, who had
purposely not used a special serum to protect the vampires from the sun, tries to annihilate himself
by being in direct sunlight. He then disappears, leaving behind the necklace his parents gave him.
Elsewhere, A-ra turns out to have revealed Ma-ri's true identity as a vampire to all her friends,
including Jae-min. Since then, Ma-ri and her family have disappeared somewhere.
Two weeks later, Jae-min gets a call from an unknown number, informing him that Ma-ri is
waiting for him at the lighthouse. He rushes over there and goes to Ma-ri to demand an explanation.
After finally reuniting with Jae-min, Ma-ri reveals that she is indeed a vampire.
Knowing the truth from Ma-ri directly, Jae-min looks so shocked because he didn't think that
the one he loved so much turned out to be from the vampires he hated so much. With tears in her eyes,
Ma-ri apologizes to him for hiding the fact. When Ma-ri almost fell from the lighthouse, Jae-min
then helped her, but in the end, it was Jae-min who slipped and fell into the sea. Ma-ri is forced
to use her vampire powers to save Jae-min, even though she already knows the risks. However, after
Ma-ri saves Jae-min, he doesn't even remember anything about the incident, not even knowing her.
Two months after the incident, Ma-ri was locked up by the VCS for committing a serious offense,
even though she used her powers to save a human. She is then made the subject of an experiment by
VCS, where VCS aims to erase the gap between vampires and humans so they can live side by
side in harmony. VCS wants to show that vampires are harmless and won't hurt humans. After that,
Ma-ri was freed to mingle with humans so VCS could observe their experiment's progress with her.
Ma-ri, who has returned home, prepares to go to school by taking the train as usual.
But this time, she openly admits that she is a vampire.
When finally reunited with Jae-min, who still doesn't remember anything about her,
Ma-ri tries to approach him even though he hates vampires.
Meanwhile, elsewhere, Shi-hoo is seen being treated by VCS. Apparently, before Shi-hoo's
body was completely destroyed, VCS was able to save him and is now conducting experiments on him.
At school, Ma-ri is bullied by A-ra and her schoolmates regarding her identity as a vampire.
However, Ma-ri tries to ignore the bullying she receives and remains kind to her friends.
Meanwhile, Ma-ri's father is very worried about his daughter after her identity is revealed, then
goes to Ma-ri's school to check on his daughter's condition. Ma-ri's father was shocked when he
found out that his daughter was being bullied. While taking cooking lessons, Ma-ri is shunned
by her classmates. Even A-ra and her friends plan to prank her. However, Jae-min doesn't necessarily
let them bully Ma-ri, even though he doesn't do all that because he really cares about her. Ma-ri,
who has decided to no longer hide her identity as a vampire, then openly drinks the blood from the
tomato juice bottle she always carries. All the students seem to look at Ma-ri and talk about her.
Not long after, Shi-hoo appears and immediately takes Ma-ri away from there.
Meanwhile, the students' parents, who know there is a vampire in the school,
then urge the school to expel Ma-ri because they think vampires are dangerous creatures. But then,
Jae-min, a model student and popular at school, meets the parents to make
sure that vampires are not dangerous creatures and can coexist with humans. As time goes on,
Jae-min and Ma-ri become closer, even though Jae-min has no memory of him ever dating Ma-ri.
Meanwhile, Jae-min's mother offers Ma-ri's parents to run her restaurant, and they agree
to the offer. One day, Shi-hoo invites Ma-ri to skip school. But she immediately refused.
However, when Jae-min invites her to play truant, Ma-ri happily follows him.
Knowing that Jae-min, Ma-ri, and Shi-hoo are skipping school, A-ra decides to skip
school. She then meets Shi-hoo, and they spend time together. After getting to know
Shi-hoo better, A-ra decides to change and no longer bully Ma-ri or other vampires.
On the other hand, Jae-min begins to remember several incidents with Ma-ri,
when she tried to bite him. Therefore, he then asked her to stay away from him.
Shi-hoo, who knows this, then chases Jae-min and tries to explain everything to him.
Meanwhile, Ma-ri finally decides to change schools because Jae-min asked her to stay away from him.
Jae-min, who has learned all the truth from Shi-hoo, then rushes after Ma-ri to forbid
her from leaving and hugs her tightly. Jae-min then tells Ma-ri that Shi-hoo revealed all the
truth and explained their past relationship. One day, one of the students overhears a
conversation between Shi-hoo and Jae-min and finds out that Shi-hoo is a vampire.
The girl then told her friends, and everyone was immediately shocked when they found out
that there were two vampires in their school. A-ra then goes to Shi-hoo and confirms that she
wasn't the one who leaked his identity to their schoolmates, and Shi-hoo believes her words.
After that, all students and their parents again protested because there were two vampires in the
school. However, Jae-min, assisted by A-ra manages to convince the parents and their
friends that vampires are not dangerous. After things were calm and peaceful again,
Jae-min then invited his friends to return to playing music in the band 'Orange Marmalade'
to prove that humans and vampires can coexist in harmony. Not long after,
VCS decided to release Shi-hoo's parents, and they are now living happily side by side with humans.
The moral that can be learned from this movie is that differences should not be
used as an excuse for us to be hostile to others.
In fact, despite the differences, we as humans must help each other and complement each other.