The determinations in a murder case leed Inspector Oh to the Korea of the wartime in the year 1952: In the POW-camp ruthless cruelty is omnipresent. The communist Son Ji-hae prepares the blow-out for the prisoners and several are able to take refuge into a near school. The violent police-chief Jang Dal-su orders to burn down the building and lets shoot the refugees. Only Son, her lover Hwang-suk and the leader of the militia, Han Dong-ju, are escaping. Short time later, they are captured by their haunters. Hwang-suk sacrifices his life for Son and appeals to Han to care for her the following time. At this place the entries of Sons diaries, which got in Ohs possession, end. He succeeds in meeting Son, the widow of the murdered and after her declarations he is riddled.