胡格(杰森·罗巴兹 Jason Robards 饰)遭到了信赖的朋友塔格里(L·Q·琼斯 L.Q. Jones 饰)和布温(斯特罗瑟·马丁 Strother Martin 饰)的背叛,身无分文险些丧命。在一片荒漠之中,胡格意外的发现了一处水源,于是,他打起了卖水的主意。牧师约书亚(大卫·沃纳 David Warner 饰)指责胡格不应该将公共资源据为己有,于是胡格前往附近的小镇,将这片地买了下来,紧接着,他又凭借着三寸不烂之舌说服了当地的银行家投资兴建旅店。与此同时,胡格邂逅了被小镇上的居民居住出镇的妓女西堤(斯黛拉·斯蒂文斯 Stella Stevens 饰),胡格收留了她,两人之间产生了真挚的感情。
Eun-gi's eventful life in a boarding house has begun with the three ladies: a sexy owner of a boarding house, her daughter who is even sexier, and his innocent first love. Eun-gi, a freshman, has found his new place in a boarding house operated by mother and daughter when he came to Seoul to study. His only pleasure is to play along in the unspoken push-and-pull relationship with the mother or the daughter. One day, his first love, Soon-yi, who is innocent and docile, suddenly comes to visit him at the boarding house. With the sexy daughter of the boarding house behind the door, and the curvaceous lady owner of the boarding house in the bathroom next to his room, the 20-year-old virgin Eun-gi's sleepless night begins.
19世纪50年代,朝鲜面临内忧外患,人民生活艰苦。被人殴打的乞丐少年张承业被书生金柄文(安圣基饰)所救,二人结下终生不解的友谊。在金柄文的朋友李凝轩(韩明求饰)的帮助下,他在大画院正式拜师学画。五年后,张承业(崔岷植饰)凭着自己过人的天分,开始学有所成,离开了老师闯荡 天下。一次偶然的机会,张承业结识了青楼女子梅香,为她在群摆上画了梅花,并题写了“梅花一生不卖香”的字句。不久,他来到初恋情人李凝轩的妹妹素云(孙艺珍饰)家中,为久病的恩人作了一副《仙鹤图》。李凝轩离去后,张承业告别素云。当时的社会非常鄙视作画的文人,失意的张承业只得继续云游四方,陶冶性情。