Hyo-joo, an untenured instructor at a boys’ high school is assigned to a class of seniors as a HR teacher. She notices that a specialized dance student Jae-ha is absent from the self-study session, and finds him practicing refined dance movements in the gym. The next day Hae-young, the school board chairman’s daughter arrives as a tenured instructor, which was the position assumed to be offered to Hyo-joo soon. Hae-young, sweet and having grown up with no worries, treats Hyo-joo with affection, but Hyo-joo only gives her the cold shoulder. Then one day, Hyo-joo witnesses Hae-young and Jae-ha in the gym, having sex, and from that moment on, she starts feeling an inexplicable sense of humiliation towards Hae-young while gradually falling under the influence of Jae-ha’s elusive charm.

A poor North Korean fisherman finds himself an accidental defector, and is groomed to be a spy by an ambitious South Korean military officer.