Synopsis | Su-ok arrives from Seoul after being assigned to teach at an elementary school in a remote mountain village. At the village bus stop, she encounters Kkae-cheol, a ragged-looking outsider whose presence leaves her strangely unsettled. In this closed, clan-based community, Su-ok becomes intrigued by the way the village women feed and shelter him despite his marginal status. When a scandal involving Kkae-cheol begins to disturb the village, Su-ok gradually realizes that he is more than a mere vagrant. Behind the community’s strict morality and traditions lies a world of repressed desire, secrecy, and contradiction, and Kkae-cheol stands at its hidden center. As Su-ok waits for her fiancé and struggles to adjust to life in the unfamiliar village, she is drawn deeper into the uneasy relationship between Kkae-cheol and the townspeople. In the process, she is forced to confront not only the village’s buried tensions, but also the fears and desires within herself.