Song Jae-hun and his wife Kim Hee-sun are a happily married couple. To commemorate their marriage, Son Jae-hun writes a novel entitled Goldfish. Im Heung-yeol, Song Jae-hun's classmate, curses the reality and loses his job. Afterwards, Im Heung-yeol begins some sort of social movement. When Song Jae-hun goes away on a business trip, Hee-sun visits the manager on behalf of her husband and ends up drinking heavily with him. Im Heung-yeol tries to explain Hee-sun's situation to Song Jae-hun, but a dark shadow following him locks him up behind bars. Hee-sun gets a job at a textile manufacturing factory and struggles to survive each day. Song Jae-hun misses his wife and goes to look for her but she has already left with a bottle of pills. He traces her to her mother's house in Gye-dong, but it is too late.