通过一对生活在小镇母女之间相互依存又相互控制，展开一段关于复杂关系的人性故事。表达了单亲家庭中母女二人因为爱而相互牺牲，展现爱来抵抗不幸生活的价值观，弘扬向正，向善，向上的社会关系，展现人间真情。
With their father in a coma, nurse Seon-young urges her brother Il-hoe, who cannot afford his son’s tuition and risks seeing him miss college, to stage a fake funeral. They forge a death certificate and deceive the hospital, but as pressure builds, their plan begins to unravel in unexpected ways.
故事发生在北方一个偏远村庄，一位老来得子的父亲，为儿子能娶上媳妇扛起筹备彩礼的重担。他体弱多病，仍进城辛苦打工挣钱。在一次交通事故中，父亲救下儿子，用生命换来赔偿款筹齐了彩礼，使儿子完成了婚事。
