Lee Suk-hui (Choe Eun-hui) lost her husband to the Korean War eight years ago. She runs a dressmaking shop that has fallen into debt. When Kim Sang-gyu (Kim Jin-gyu), the executive director of a publishing company, helps her pay off debts, she falls in love with him. He, however, is engaged to the daughter of his boss, Ok-ju (Do Geum-bong). His sister (Ju Jeung-nyeo) pushes him to marry the boss's daughter, hoping that will bring him rapid success. Meanwhile, Suk-hui's grown-up daughter Gyeong-hui, wanting her mother to be happy, urges her mother to marry Sang-gyu, but Suk-hui vacillates between social mores and her own happiness. Even though she and Sang-gyu truly love each other, she decides to leave him and heads for her country home after selling her house in Seoul. Hearing the news, he who is ill in bed hurries to Seoul station, but it is too late. All he can do is just to stand on the platform and to watch her train pulling away.
최은희
as Lee Sook-hee
엄앵란
as Oh Kyung-hee
김진규
as Kim Sang-gyu
주증녀
as Mrs. Kim (Sister of Sang-gyu)
김석훈
as Han Ki-cheol (Sang-gyu's friend)
김동원
as Chairman (President of publishing company)
한은진
as Mrs. Park (Mother of Okju)
도금봉
as Ok-joo Lee (Sang-gyu's fiancé)
김승호
as Busan President Kim (Trader)
이민
as Shin Dong-il (President of a securities company)
주선태
as Bokdeokbang owner
서월영
as Mrs. Lee
