Rice Cake

Jeomrye works as a sharecropper to make a living for her goodfornothing husband and her son Yong But the village men are always trying to seduce her When she rebuffs her landlords advances she is wrongly accused by his wife and is forced to leave Samsu the servant who is smitten with her offers to lend her husband Deokhi money for her affections Deokhi tries to sell her off to Samsu but Jeomrye gets him arrested for trafficking humans Samsu realizes Jeomryes sincerity and drops the charges and Deokhi repents his ways only too late He dies of an illness When her son Yong dies from indigestion after eating rice cakes she goes off the edge