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Min Ji-suk runs a ticket barwhere customers can purchase tickets for certain servicesin the town of Sokcho in Gangwon-do. She hires Miss Yang (Ahn So-young),Miss Hong (Lee Hye-young),and Se-young (Jeon Se-young) through the employment agency. Miss Yang and Miss Hong,who are well experienced in this type of business,are used to accepting propositions from customers. But Se-young,who is dating a college student named Min-su,rejects all requests for sexual favors. When Min-su professes to having problems with his tuition and finances,Se-young reassures him that she will procure the necessary funds for him. When the bar's clientele begins to dwindle because of Se-young,Ji-suk reprimands her severely. Se-young develops a close relationship with a Captain Pak and even allows him to sleep with her. She asks Captain Pak to find Min-su employment on a boat,but when Min-su comes to Sokcho for his new job,he sees how Se-young has been making her living. Shocked,he turns his back on the job and leaves. When he eventually returns to Sokcho,he scathingly denounces Se-young's morality and severs their relationship. Decades ago,Ji-suk had stumbled into the bar business in a desperate effort to support her husband,who was serving time in prison; she later left him voluntarily out of shame and moral degradation. Concerned that Se-young will end up with the same fate,Ji-suk asks Min-su to meet with her. She begs him not to abandon Se-young,but he flatly refuses. Ji-suk reacts by pushing Min-su into the sea,and suffers a mental breakdown that lands her in a psychiatric institution.