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In 1997, Yong-gu, a man with a developmental disability, lives happily with his six-year-old daughter Ye-sung and promises to buy her a Sailor Moon backpack. After a tragic accident involving a police commissioner's young daughter, he is wrongly arrested for her death and sent to prison, where his cellmates at first look down on him.
In 2092, with Earth dying and most of humanity living in poverty, Tae-ho, Captain Jang, Tiger Park and the android Bubs scrape by as a crew of space sweepers, sinking deeper into debt. On a job, they find Dorothy, a child robot said to hold a devastating weapon, and see a chance to cash in with a ransom.
Sang-hyeon and his friend Dong-soo secretly take babies left in a church's baby box and sell them to adoptive parents on the black market. When So-young comes back for her newborn son, she decides to join them on a road trip to find a family for him, while two detectives follow their trail.
Kim Seong-geun, buried in debt and feeling hopeless, jumps from a bridge into the Han River and washes up on Bamseom, a small island in the middle of Seoul. Unable to swim back, he starts to enjoy a simple life free of his worries, while Kim Jung-yeon, a young woman who never leaves her room, spots his message written in the sand.
During the 1950 Hungnam evacuation of the Korean War, young Deok-soo is separated from his little sister, and his father stays behind to search for her. Before they part, his father makes Deok-soo promise to look after the family, and the boy flees to Busan with his mother and siblings to start over.
In 1950, during the Korean War, an American pilot crash-lands near Dongmakgol, a remote mountain village whose residents know nothing about the fighting. Soon three North Korean soldiers and two South Korean deserters are also led there, and the enemies end up in a tense standoff while the puzzled villagers carry on with their daily lives.
Oh Mal-soon is a stubborn, sharp-tongued 74-year-old widow who lives with her son's family and clashes with her daughter-in-law. Upset after learning her family plans to send her to a nursing home, she wanders into a mysterious photo studio and walks out to find she has turned back into her 20-year-old self.
Seven-year-old Sang-woo, a spoiled city boy, is left with his elderly grandmother in a remote village while his mother looks for work in Seoul. She cannot speak and walks bent over with a cane, and her home has no electricity or running water, so he treats her rudely while she patiently tries to care for him.
After failing the national exam to become a teacher, Hye-won quits her part-time job in Seoul and heads back to the country village where she grew up. Her mother is no longer there, but as Hye-won cooks through the seasons, memories of how her mother made a home for her come back, and she reconnects with two childhood friends.
National judo athlete Doo-young permanently loses his sight after an injury at an international match. His estranged older brother Doo-shik, a swindler, uses the crisis to win parole from prison and moves back home, adding fresh stress for a young man who has fended for himself since losing their parents.
Im Na-mi is a well-off housewife who feels lonely and ignored by her husband and daughter. A hospital visit stirs memories of her 1980s school days, when she was a new girl teased for her country accent and was taken in by a lively group of friends called Sunny. Decades later, she sets out to find them again.
Nam Hyeon-soo, a former teen idol now in his thirties, works as a radio DJ. His life is turned upside down when a young listener who has been sending in stories about being a single mother shows up at his apartment with her little boy, claiming to be his daughter.
Jang Eun-ha, a North Korean defector, works as a special delivery driver in Busan. A job to pick up former baseball player Kim Doo-sik, who is tangled up in illegal gambling, goes wrong when she ends up with his young son, Seo-won, and the two are chased by Kyeong-pil, a corrupt police officer after a bank security key the boy carries.
Hong Jeong-hye is serving ten years in prison for killing her abusive husband, and the son she bears behind bars must, by law, be given up for adoption. Promised a day out with her infant if she pulls it off, she sets out to form a choir with fellow inmates, including death-row prisoner Kim Moon-ok.
Sang-man, a lonely man who knows nothing about his family, survives an attempt on his own life and wakes up in the hospital able to see ghosts. Four spirits follow him home and refuse to leave, so he agrees to carry out their unfinished wishes, while also getting to know a kind nurse named Yun-soo.
Soon-ho is a lawyer weighed down by his father's debts. He takes on a case in which a housekeeper, Mi-ran, is accused of killing her employer, though she says she simply found him dead. The only witness is Ji-woo, a teenage girl with autism, and Soon-ho sets out to befriend her, hoping to show her account cannot be trusted.
Jae-hee is a free-spirited young woman, and Heung-soo is a man keeping something deeply hidden about himself. The two become close friends and share an apartment in Seoul, facing the highs and lows of young adult life side by side. The film is adapted from part of a novel.
Seok-heon, a security guard with a habit of petty theft, gains telekinetic powers after drinking from a mountain spring struck by a meteor. Meanwhile his estranged daughter, Shin Roo-mi, who runs a fried chicken restaurant, is fighting a mob-backed construction company determined to tear down her small business and her neighborhood.
Sung-chil is a grumpy man of seventy who lives alone, works part-time at a local supermarket and refuses to sign off on the town's redevelopment plan. Things change when he meets Geum-nim, the lively elderly woman who runs the flower shop next door, and the whole neighborhood steps in to help the awkward Sung-chil win her over.
Kim Won-kang, a one-time football prospect whose life has not gone to plan, travels to East Timor hoping to find new chances. Spotting street kids playing barefoot, he opens a sports shop, only to realize none of them can afford his gear. On the verge of giving up, he instead starts coaching the children in football.
Gye-chun, a haenyeo diver on Jeju, is overjoyed when her granddaughter Hye-ji comes back after being lost for twelve years. The two start living together in Gye-chun's home and slowly try to rebuild their bond, though the grown-up Hye-ji shares very little about herself.
Wei Wei is a young circus ringmaster whose only family and friend is Ling Ling, a gorilla who can swing a baseball bat. When her grandfather dies and leaves a huge debt, a loan shark wants to take Ling Ling away to pay it off, so Wei Wei lets a money-minded sports agent named Sung bring the gorilla to play in the Korean Baseball League.
NIS agent Lee Han-gyu fails to stop an assassination carried out by North Korean sleeper spy Ji-won, and loses his job over it. Six years later, Han-gyu tracks down runaway brides as a private investigator and Ji-won works construction. When they cross paths by chance, each recognizes the other but keeps quiet, and they end up working and living together.
Early in King Sunjo's reign, the scholar Jeong Yak-jeon is banished to remote Heuksan Island. Fascinated by sea life, he hopes to record it in a book and asks for help from Chang-dae, a young fisherman who knows the waters well but refuses to work with a convicted man, until Jeong offers to tutor him in return.
Jang Pan-soo is a well-known elite gangster married to his boss's daughter. When high school student Dong-hyun falls from a rooftop and lands on him, Pan-soo wakes up in the hospital trapped inside the teenager's body. Unable to switch back, he goes home with Dong-hyun's father and discovers the boy is a target for school bullies.
