First Episode:
After her husband's sudden death and being driven out of the house by the senior wife, Yang Gil-re and her children - daughter Eun-shil and son Eun-chul - return to the town of Hwasan where they used to live. At a local photography studio in their hometown, Gil-re is warmly welcomed by the owner Yong-tae. Seeing that she and her children have no one to rely on, he allows them to temporarily stay in his home. Gil-re's former lover, Jang Nok-do, has become extremely wealthy and is now the richest man in Hwasan, owning a timber processing plant and the only cinema in the area.