This is a South Korean romance film and it starts with a scene in the church,
where the priest along with all the other people sitting on the benches are offering
their prayers to the Almighty God. Later, that same priest is seen taking a loan from a man,
who was sitting on the stairs and asking about the reason for the loan. After giving the priest the
private loan that man climbs the stairs, and heads towards his next work. That man is Han Tae-il,
who works as a low-level thug, as a debt collector, working in Daesan Industries.
He lives with his family which includes: his father who works as a bus driver, his brother,
Yeong-il, his sister-in-law, Mi-young, and their daughter. Also, his father and brother don't like
him working as a thug. His problem is that: He is a man with a good heart in bad world.
Han Tae-il then goes to a man who has been delaying repaying his loan,
but that man continuously brags about his sob story. Frustrated by listening to his pleadings,
he threatens him by saying to end the story of their lives, and starts to pour gasoline around
here and there. He even drinks the gasoline, and the man gets scared and gives him the money he had
saved for his shop’s rent and kid’s education. Before leaving he gives the third half of the
money back to that man for his kid’s study and then leaves taking the rest of it. Coming out of
the store, suddenly he goes to the side and starts vomiting; maybe it's because he drank gasoline.
Later, he goes to a Chinese restaurant which was a spot for gambling, drinking, and other illegal
activities. There his boss assigns Han Tae-il, his next task. The task was to take the money back
from the man who had taken a loan, but he is in a coma. Moreover, he has one daughter: Ju Ho-Jung,
and now she will have to repay the debt. To complete this task, he heads toward the
hospital. He along with two other men entered the room in which that man was admitted,
a young girl came out of the washroom and told them to leave, as her father needed a bath.
Han Tae-il asked to have a chat with her and tried to show her the legal papers, but she responded
harshly to him. Seeing this, Han Tae-il asked his men to take the patient out, she tried to
stop them from taking the bed out. When she was convinced that they will not stop she agreed to
whatever they wanted her to do. Minutes later, they made her sign the legal papers that stated,
she will now have to repay her father’s debt by giving money in installments with interest every
month on a certain date. When they were exiting the hospital, Han Tae-il stopped for some moments
and unintentionally thought about Ho-Jung. The next day, when Han Tae-il got out of the shop
and walked towards the signal, he saw Ho-Jung in uniform saying bye to her friends. He followed her
as she went to the hospital, took her father’s treatment bill from the reception, and saw her
exhausted face as she was looking at the amount that was remaining to be paid. One night, Ho-Jung
got out of the bank and was heading towards her house when Han Tae-il suddenly called her. Ho-Jung
was shocked to see him there and got more shocked when he asked her to have a drink with him,
as he wanted to talk about something. Now, they were at the restaurant sitting face to face;
he said that she should not have signed those papers without explaining anything. She still
was not able to understand why is he saying this to her; she left the restaurant shouting at him
that she will pay back the money herself. The next day, when Ho-Jung enters her father's
room in the hospital, she gets furious at seeing Han Tae-ill there but ignores him and walks out.
Seeing Han Tae-ill following her, she turns around and makes him understand,
that she does not need his help paying the hospital bills or repaying the debt. While
Han Tae-il also makes her realize that she will not be able to pay all this money by herself,
so she should better co-operate with him. Thus, they end up arguing in the middle of the hospital.
After this, Han Tae-il goes to his office, which looks like a spot for some illegal working,
and there he asks his boss to hand over the contract back to Jo-hung as a thanksgiving,
which Jo-hung signed previously, The following day, Han Tae-il went to Ho-Jung,
and at that time she was in the bank. She was working and he was asking for a meet-up,
she tried to stay calm and asked him to go away. But he didn't move or listen to her and
her seniors called the police. they both ended up being in a police station, where the officer
also took Han Tae-il's side as they stated it's legal to remind someone to pay their debt on time.
When they got out of the police station, he asked her to meet him the other day.
When Han Tae-il got home, he continuously thought about how to help Jo-hung to get
out of that contract with his company and he came up with an amazing idea. That night,
he visited Jo-hung at the hospital and explained how the memo that he made voids the contract she
signed. The deal was that she had to meet Tae-il every day, and for every hour they meet; he will
color the boxes in that memo. Finally, when that memo will be completed, the contract will be hers.
This means that she might get free from paying the debt. At that moment, she refuses but he gives her
his number in case she accepts his offer. The other day, Jo-hung was thinking about how
the hospital has stopped giving medicines to her father, because the bills were not paid.
This forced her to reach a decision and there she was now in front of Tae-il agreeing to the
offer he gave last night. They ended up having a rough conversation, about what they will be doing
while spending time together. However, at the next meeting, they finally decided to act on the offer,
but she reminded him to keep the promise. From the very next day, they started meeting
for some hours a day. They met when Jo-hung had her break for lunch and they always visited a
restaurant, but Jo-hung never touched the food while Tae-il was the one always eating. It was
after some days when Jo-hung saw Han Tae-il giving a bath to her father; she realized although he was
a thug he also had a good side of his own. The next time, when they were at the restaurant,
Jo-hung picked up the chopsticks and started eating lunch,
seeing her eating, Tae-il also got happy. From now onwards, they were having a better time with
each other while having a walk or eating at a café. As Jo-hung was now being a bit responsive
instead of being completely silent while meeting him. Thus, they started liking each other.
It cuts to the scene where two men were seen destroying a shop in the market throwing
things here and there, while the owner was pleading with them to stop and talk to Mr. Han.
When Han Tae-il got there he pushed the owner inside and went somewhere with the other two men.
All this was witnessed by Jo-hung and she misunderstood the situation.
The following day, when she entered her father's room in the hospital;
moving downstairs taking her father's wheelchair. When Tae-il asked her what was wrong; she told him
claimed that she will pay the debt soon. Han Tae-il got hurt by her rude behavior,
and threw his frustration out on other woman whom he used to meet before. Later,
Tae-il got drunk and went to the hospital to tell Jo-hung that what he said earlier was not true.
He told her he does not love her. Now, whenever Tae-il visited that restaurant, he used to visit
with Jo-hung; he starts missing her terribly. One day, when Tae-ill was having his lunch at his
office; one of the workers came asking about the Jo-hung's father’s case file.
Upon asking why he needed the file, he told Tae-il that her father had died.
Jo-hung was left alone in the world, as she was sitting in the funeral hall in sorrow. Suddenly,
the door opened and Tae-ill entered the funeral hall, he bowed down in front of her late father's
photo and asked her whether she has eaten anything yet or not. She was surprised to see him there,
but got a feeling of relief that still someone is there who cares for her. In the next moment,
Tae-il managed all the funeral preparations, and called his friends and relatives to offer
their condolences to the family. He took good care of her the next days and stayed with her.
During all this, Jo-hung sees Tae-il with a different perspective; she sees his kindness
and softness behind his criminal aura. One day, Tae-il came to drop Jo-hung at the bank,
and there she asked to talk with him, as she had few more minutes. They went
to the terrace of the bank, standing next to each other against the wall;
Jo-hung asked him that does he feel pity or like her? .... As she already knew the answer she asked
why he liked her? ..... Unable to answer, this talk ended with them having some sweet intense
moments with each other. Now, they both seemed to be in a happy relationship with each other.
2 Years Later; Tae-il seemed to be sewing a heart with the wool
and needle, sitting inside the jail. Today was his last day there, as he was now going to be free.
After getting out of jail, he went to the police station to know the whereabouts of his family as
they have moved. The old police officer gave him their recent address and Tae-il left saying he
was a model prisoner. He was waiting outside when his nephew, who was now a grown-up girl,
and his sister-in-law came from somewhere, they were happy to see him. Later, he met his brother
who was still angry at him. It is also revealed that he still had one more year of sentence,
but got released earliar, which he told his family that it's because he was regarded as a model
prisoner. Tae-il also got to meet his father, but his father was in not a good condition,
and he had a dispute with his brother for not taking good care of their father.
Jo-hung was heading home after work, when she saw Tae-il after 2 years, sitting on the stairs
in front of her house. She was speechless for a moment and then asked how he found her.
She also refused to take the bag he was giving her and said some hurtful things to him. Then
she went into her house leaving him behind; Tae-il hung that bag on the wall outside her house. Then,
Tae-il was standing in the washroom, soaping his face to shave but suddenly, his nose started
bleeding heavily and he collapsed on the floor. Going back to the time when he was in jail,
through his medical tests the officers found out that he had a Brain tumor,
and that was the reason behind his release soon as he had only three months left to liv.
2 YEARS AGO; Tae-il was happiest being
with Ju-hung and he was going to her house. As he entered, he saw her washing clothes by hand
and taunted why had they bought a washing machine. Ju-hung asked him to hike the mountain together,
first, he refused but then bought her a jacket to go. They went to the mountain;
Tae-il placed his head in Jo-hung's lap and lies down on the bench. Jo-hung was asking him,
not to be associated with that illegal work and to quit it. She told him how they could
then have a beautiful future together; they could start their chicken shop and have a cute kid.
Later, Tae-il was there in front of his boss telling him that he was quitting. But his
boss managed to convince him to stay for a last big job and then he could retire. Also,
his boss asked him to collect all private loans he gave, and now there he was, at the priest’s
place asking to pay the debt which he had previously given him. Finally, he was able to
find the locker in the priest's office, and when the priest opened the locker; Tae-il fainted.
That's when Tae-il got to know for the first time from the doctor that he has a brain tumor.
The doctor guided him about the treatments and therapies, which were all beyond his
understanding. Later that night, when Jo-hung got home and they were both having dinner,
she gave him the money which included her dad's insurance and some that she had saved.
She explained their plans to him of opening a chicken shop, getting married, and having a child;
unknown to the fact that he might not even be alive. The next day, they went to the agent to see
some shops, but the shop Jo-hung liked was really expensive so she said to Tae-il that they can
even start from small. Tae-il wanted to buy that shop and knew more money would be needed to start
a new business. Therefore, after she returned to the bank, he went to his boss. He accepted
the big job his boss offered him and risked all their money they had saved for the business.
Unfortunately, crime eventually catches up to Tae-il and he ends up losing all the money.
As goons crashed their gambling session and looted all the money. While trying to save the money from
being stolen, he gets beaten up by them badly. On the other side, Jo-hung was waiting for him
to come to the agent’s shop, as they were going to sign the contract today with the shop owner.
Now, Tae-il was in the Chinese restaurant drinking after being hurt so much, as he had
destroyed her dreams. When jo-hung came to that restaurant, and sat at the table next to his and
began asking questions knowing he has got nothing to say. She wanted to know why he went to them
when he promised her he won't, and told him what the realtor said to her: "Gangsters can't lead a
normal life". Tae-il who was already guilty enough rather than making Jo-hung understand that he had
screwed up, blames her instead and claimed that he never loved her. Getting extremely hurt Jo-hung
walks away from there, and Tae-il gets entangled with two police officers after fighting with some
boys. Then, he gets arrested for assaulting police officers and is sentenced to jail for 3 years.
Months passed and when the police got to know about his illness, they released him.
The scene cuts to Present-day, Tae-il got the address of his previous boss from his
old police officer and went to him. Doo-Chul, his boss was now working in a big factory;
Tae-il asked him for his money. Doo-Chul taunted him of digging old grudges and refused to give
him any money. The next day, he destroyed Doo-Chul's factory rooms, and then he was
kept in the refrigerated storage space for hours. After that, when he was dragged out, he showed
his reports to Doo-Chul and asked him for the last favor as a friend. Doo-Chul finally gave the money
to Tae-il as he got to know of his illness. In the next scene, Tae-il was waiting for Jo-hung
to come, and when she came and saw him giving the money back; she immediately refused to take
that money and pleaded with him to go. Tae-il tried to make her understand his situation,
but she didn’t want to listen. He suddenly embraced her in his arms, she tried to protest
but failed. When Tae-il got home later, he again got in a fight with his brother,
when he saw tae-il all injured and accused him of being in a fight again. That night Tae-il had
a heartfelt conversation with his father too. A few days later, Tae-il's sister-in-law asked him
to leave the house, because they were involved in many fights. She did all this because her husband,
and Tae-il got into a fight against the man who tried to harass her.
Tae-il packed his things and left the house. He also met Jo-hung for the last time.
When he was leaving the city he saw Jo-hung with two people. Then he watches her from distance and
she looks happy to him. It can only be assumed that he's happy for her as he was smiling while
returning. But then he collapses nearby; bleeding heavily. He then wakes up in the hospital,
after getting up, he goes to reception to clear the bills, but was shocked to see
that jo-hung had already paid the bills. jo-hung sees that incident and got to know
about his illness. She got to know about how he didn't even get his treatment done in jail.
Realizing that her love does not have long to live; she decides to stay by his side.
She goes to him and stops when she saw him standing across the alley. Tae-il
also notices her and stops. When they both have eye contact, she starts crying her heart out and
then he also starts crying feeling helpless. They both cried standing in front of each other.
After this, Jo-Hung stayed by Tae-il’s side every time he had any treatment; she took him to the
hospital roof for air and to read for him. Each night she slept beside his hospital bed holding
his hand. But the inevitable always happens and now came the last moments of Tae-il's life,
as his condition got worse day by day. His family was also informed about his illness.
One night, when Jo-Hung was going to give a bath to him, she realized he is already dead and
confessed his love to him for the last time. Tae-il’s father, his brother, and his nephew;
all were suffering in pain at his funeral. Including Jo-Hung, who was left alone once
again in this world, but Tae-il already told his father about how much he loves her. He requested
him to be a father to her when he is gone, because she won’t have anyone else around her…
Jo-hung missed Tae-il so much that it felt like: he was always with
her during her days and nights. The movie ends with Jo-hung crying
as she missed Tae-il when she was sitting on his father's bus returning from her job.