Park Sang-ik

Prior to the adoption of Confucianism, it was the tradition to abandon one's parents on a mountainside if they were over 70 years of age. In the ancient kingdom of Goryeo, now modern Korea, a nobleman defies this tradition when he refuses to leave his mother to starve to death.

A housemaid becomes pregnant by her employer's husband and she flees to the countryside to raise her daughter on her own.