This landmark Korean film finds our
hero, Mak-dong discharged from the military and returning home to
find his village transformed into a city. Confused, alone and alienated
he finds drifts into the shady world of organized crime which offers
some stability and familiarity in its codes of honor and respect.
However morality comes crashing down through the complicated love
triangle which develops with his gangland boss and his boss’s mistress,
all the while as the criminal empire itself starts to come apart
at the seams.