Min-Wu determines to murder Ji-Ae as he decides something during making love. Then her diary which is found in her apartment displays Ji-Ae's life like a panorama. After she comes to Seoul, Ji-Ae attends in a college by working part time job with difficulties. Then she meets Min-Wu who returns to school after finishing military service one day. Although she gets to love him, Ji-Ae becomes skeptical about his pessimistic way of living. At that time a fashion designer Yun-Jin appears to her. Ji-Ae becomes shaky due to Yun-Jin's sophisticated manner and comfortable life, and finally she allows him to make love. Ji-Ae is gradually falling away from Min-Wu while she begins to fall in mammonism. Min-Wu, who desperately turns around Ji-Aa, makes another love promising to meet for the last but he believes the only way to save her is to kill her. In the end he kills Ji-Ae and also finished his life longing for her.
Teenager, Clare Steves, is kidnapped by an old boyfriend, Eddie Spencer, who demands $250,000. The ransom is paid and Clare is released, but when the kidnapers are caught, they claim that the whole scheme was Clare's idea as a way to punish her father.
Set on May 18, 1993—the day on which Denmark voted to join the European Union, just a few months after they'd voted not to do so—the film follows eight or so disparate Danes (an escaped mental patient, a newly-famous singer, a business executive, and their assorted families and cohorts) as they unwittingly alter one another's lives, for better and for worse.