The funeral of a teacher functions as a class reunion and a mnemonic retrospection for Byung-Tae, now a teacher himself at a college pre-school. After moving from Seoul to the countryside, he transferred to an all-boys clash, but Byung-Tae eventually submits to Suk-Dae′s oppression until a new teacher changes their lives. Inside a tale of schoolboy dreams and friendship is a disturbing critique of how men achieve power through brute manipulation and corruption in post-war Korea.