Gil-nyeo runs an inn with her young daughter Myeong-ah in a fishing village. However, her local wives agree to banish her, but she fails to convince her that it is her maiden's fault that her husbands spend her years on her drinking and gambling. One day, Jun-gi, a young man from the village, and Choi In-gyu, the owner of a salt farm, make a scheming offer to Gil-nyeo, who is collecting money like a scoundrel, to pay a large sum of money for her cockle farm. However, when it is approved as a common farm, Joon-gi frames her maiden and sends her to prison. One day, her long-daughter, who came out of her sentence, donates her belongings to the villagers who are frustrated by the failure of her cockle farming, and Joon-gi falls in love with her.