Soil

While working on a case with farmers lawyer Heo Seung comes to believe that the rural development movement is the only lasting way to preserve the identity of the country With conviction Seung throws himself into the rural area However this position is against the Japanese occupation policies and eventually even his wife Yun Jungsun ends up leaving him The Japanese judge Masaki Hiroshi determines that Seungs rural development activities are actually a rebellion against Japan He has Seung imprisoned as an ideology criminal After spending five years in jail Seung returns to the country to see his wife Jungsun continuing her husbands work and waiting for him