Yeong-gyeong, an alcoholic, and Su-hwan, a rheumatoid arthritis patient, meet for the first time at a friend′s wedding. Both their own marriages failed. Su-hwan, an iron worker since the age of 20, filed for a divorce on paper, at his wife′s suggestion, when his ironworks went bankrupt and he became a credit delinquent saddled with huge debts. After the supposedly fake divorce, Su-hwan′s wife sold off all their remaining property, of which he was completely unaware, and disappeared without a trace. Owing so much debt, Su-hwan cannot get health insurance or proper treatment. Yeong-gyeong, formerly a Korean language teacher, divorced immediately after giving birth to a baby, after a year of marriage. Following the divorce, her ex-husband′s family secretly emigrated to Canada with her baby. Yeong-gyeong became addicted to alcohol after her child was taken from her. Unable to continue teaching students in her alcoholic state, she quit her job. The two meet after having lost everything. They do not try to stop, persuade, or correct each other′s shortcomings. They simply watch each other in their downward spiral and suffer together.