Young-Hoon returns home after 2 year nomadic life since he quitted his high school because he was astonished at the sight of his first love Jung-Nim, older than himself, making love with a married man.  When he comes back home, he finds his mother died and his family members blame him for what happened to their family. 
He leaves home again and after passing the qualification exam for college entrance, enters a college majoring in the Korean literature.  His college life is worse.  He makes friends only with Ha Kyung-Kun of the same Korean literature dept and Kim In-Chol of the history dept, who share opinions about literature and life with Young-Hoon.  And he gets to know a coed Hye-Yeon, but he cannot proceed further on the relation with her because of his memory about Jung-Nim.  At last young-Hoon and Hye-Yeon break up and Kyung-Kun dies at a demonstration site.  Young-Hoon leaves for another wandering life after the friend’s death and the breakup with Hye-Yeon. 
On his wandering travel, Young-Hoon meets Miss Yoon, a barmaid with a pure heart.  They start a long wandering trip with a sword-sharpener who used to be a learned man, but now is full of revengeful thoughts. 

<AWARDS> 
 -the 29th Grand Bell Film Contest :  Best Picture