Synopsis | Kim Bul-i, a dwarf who once played trumpet in provincial theaters and circus shows, loses his livelihood as those stages disappear and is reduced to luring customers outside a cabaret. Despite poverty and humiliation, his family holds on to a modest hope: to live together in a home of their own. But when the salt fields where they work are cleared for factories and apartment complexes, the neighborhood is swept up in redevelopment. Unable to afford a new apartment, Bul-i’s family faces displacement like so many others around them. As his eldest son endures punishing factory labor and his daughter makes a desperate attempt to secure their future, the family’s fragile dream is pushed to the brink by the forces of industrialization and urban development.