Young Min is a professor of literature, father of two, and one woman′s spouse. Young Hee is a journalist, single woman and Young Min′s lover and beloved. They meet when Young Min invites Young Hee to dinner to thank her for a favorable review. They fall in love instantly and intimate and secretive rendezvous′ follow. Telling his wife he will work on his poetry in the tranquility of a temple, he and Young-Hee begin a live-in relationship on a beach outside of town. While their love deepens and matures, they must confront the reality of who, where, why they are.