Bae In-ho who was leading ‘The Alliance of Joseon Democratic Students’moves to North Korea during the Korean War and is appointed as a high-ranking military officer under the Kim Il-sung regime. After the Korean War, In-ho remains highly successful in North Korea.
However, In-ho’s mother believes that her son was killed during the war, and looks after Cheol-ho like her own son whom her parents-in-law brought over to her and she adopted as her son. When he grows u...more

Bae In-ho who was leading ‘The Alliance of Joseon Democratic Students’moves to North Korea during the Korean War and is appointed as a high-ranking military officer under the Kim Il-sung regime. After the Korean War, In-ho remains highly successful in North Korea.
However, In-ho’s mother believes that her son was killed during the war, and looks after Cheol-ho like her own son whom her parents-in-law brought over to her and she adopted as her son. When he grows up, Cheol-ho goes to the Korea Military Academy and becomes a lieutenant colonel in the South Korean Army. Without knowing they are stepbrothers, In-ho. as the head of the military assistance advisory group of the North Korean Army, and Cheol-ho as the battalion commander of Tiger Division of the South Korean Army, fight against each other at the Vietnam War. The older brother, dispatched by the North Korean People's Army, and the younger brother by the South Korean Army are killed in Vietnam. Later, In-ho is buried in the Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery in North Korea and Cheol-ho is buried in the National Cemetery in South Korea.
By reading the war records and the war diary, the mother learns that the two brothers fought against each other in Vietnam just like a twist of the fate. When she finds out how her two sons died, she grieves for them in agony for a week, and then throws herself into the Han River at the age of 70.less