"You bought me for 50 sacks of rice? Why would you do that?" "I thought you might end up dead if I didn't." Tucked away deep in the mountains, out of sight from curious onlookers, the stocky Bong-chun lives in isolation. Bong-chun purchases and saves Sun-gap, a servant boy who is nearly beaten to death by his master. Sun-gap is confused by Bong-chun, who shows him surprising kindness, referring to him as his wife and sparing him from heavy labor. Just as Sun-gap starts to appreciate the tranquility with Bong-chun, feeling relieved to have finally fled his former master's home, a man arrives, asserting that he has come to reclaim him.