一名曾经炙热的拳击选手（朴成雄饰），在比赛过程中导致对方死亡，在监狱服刑后想要诚实生活；而他的一位朋友（吴代焕饰）却在不择手段地想要获得成功。 两个男人清算了过去，在过上新生活中，为选择不同道路而萌生了残酷阴谋，也导致了背叛。
In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.
