Young-su renders his high life from the town girl friend and leading business when hit with a terminal disease. He retreats to a sanatorium in the countryside in order to take care of his illness, at which he meets a young woman who is a patient . They develop feelings for each other and leave the sanatorium together to dwell at a small but comfy plantation house. Their health improves significantly but when the friends from the city of Young-su come for a visit , he starts to wonder whether he should depart mundane rural village and then come back to his way of life.