At a brothel in 1970’s where violence and exploitation still prevail.   Young-Eun, 17, comes into this unlicensed prostitute quarter.  She has little remembrance of her home town.  She has come here just thinking all she has to do is wait on at drinking table.  She gets used to her life here after being trained as prostitute by merciless and cruel men of the brothel.  One day she suffers from fatigue caused by having sex with no rest when she have Kil-Ryong as a client.  Kil-Ryong manages to buy medicine for her and leaves traces of warm heart. 
In years, Kil-Ryong comes again to see Young-Eun and find that she has left to somewhere.  Meanwhile, Young-Eun becomes skillful and tries to make money.  She comes to run a bar with help of a rich man.  However, she gets broke by gambling debt and fraud.  So she has to sell herself to cheap bars and so-called Texas quarters (a kind of brothel) 
She comes back to the first brothel after being tired and exhausted with her year’s life at those Texas quarters.