Choi Gyuri is a very optimistic girl, even after her father left her when her mother dies of an unknown caused, and now she is let with the debts of her hospital bills and his loans. She has no choice but to get a job and try to maintain her decent grades. But what will she do when a classmate finds out about her current situation? How will she keep their mouth shut?

Journal entries of a young man in the 1950's that struggles with the ever growing Minamata disease. He is forced to watch the city and his family suffer. But what happens when he starts to develop the symptoms of this fatal disease himself?