Mongolia, 1960's. An old herdswoman lives alone in her yurt in the great Gobi Desert. Visitors from the national registration office come to collect information from her for the census. Sarcastically naming the elderly woman "pretty lady", they question her about her identity - but she divulges little. However, when one of the officers stays the night to count her livestock, she opens up to him with a dramatic tale of love, sacrifice, and motherhood.

Erick Ju, who is wanted internationally as a serious criminal, goes missing after undergoing a face-changing operation and using black magic to wipe his memories. Erick Ju and investigative journalist Heon Bin both find themselves in Ulaanbaatar. Not only does Heon Bin become a witness to a mysterious case, he also experiences unbelievable things in the underworld.

At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.

A Liverpool FC fan accidentally hits a rival female fan during a match against Manchester United. Instead of going to jail, the assailant agrees to act as a caretaker for a grumpy old man for a month. As the young hooligan tries to quell the old man's temper, he inadvertently discovers that there are more important things to life than soccer and money.

The story takes place in both past and present times. People loved each other, or expressed their affections not so differently in any era.