时髦的打扮掩饰了岁月在她的身上留下痕迹，66岁的美子（尹静姬 饰）像一朵摇曳在街边的小花一样绽放着自己暮年的美丽。
美子靠做钟点工赚些小钱，与读初中的外孙独自生活的日子虽然清贫，但却丝毫没有影响她对于生活的热情。虽然已经确诊患上了老年痴呆症，但她却依然酷爱诗歌，不仅时常参加诗歌朗诵会，而且开始学习写诗。她总是留意观察生活中的点滴，以便捕捉随时可能出现的灵感，然后把它们记录在随身携带的小本上。然而，如同写诗的灵感并不会轻易出现一样，生活也并非表面的那样轻松和容易……
在63届戛纳电影节上，李沧东凭借此片获得最佳编剧奖。

月亮村里，被称为“黑手套”的汝仁和一个怀有着某些秘密的男人太燮再婚住在一起，生活中的重担都落在汝仁一个人身上，偏偏自己那个不争气的儿子也令她充满失意。有一天，汝仁的前夫找上门来，提出要和她重新生活，太燮和前夫发生了争执。
这时，村里的未亡人揭开了太燮的真正面目。原来太燮是一名逃逸的杀人犯。公诉的有效期限所剩时日不多了，在汝仁的掩护下太燮开始重新做人…

生性单纯、小心谨慎的父亲深爱着自己的三个孩子，有着性感外貌的大女儿，不过她处在发情期的边缘；和自己一样单纯无知的儿子，却很擅长和自己斗嘴；最后一个是长的最为可爱二女儿，但无人能猜透她心思的小鬼头。其实他们只是四只想变成人的九尾狐，现在修练了数百年的他们终于等到了千年交接的日子，因为有传说标明，只要他们吃一颗活人的心脏就会变成真正的人类，于是他们在临前的一个月潜到繁华的人间，变换成人形创办了一个了马戏团，寻找那些容易被迷惑的人并从中寻找他们想要的东西。
可是时光经过了数百年之久，尘世的变化也让他们目瞪口呆，这里再也不找不到一丁点以前的样子，这下除了演杂技时候能接触到工作人员和观众外，根本找不到他们想要的人，现代人冷漠、而且极其自私，让他们根本无法下手……忽然有一天，一个以偷拍女人照片为生的骗子基东很偶然的来在杂技场，见到了九尾狐家族的大女儿，垂涎于美色便计划接近她，可他渐渐发现这家人非常奇怪，经常提起两只手欢迎客人，更让人不解的是，哪有初次造访，就硬劝人家与自已家女儿同房的道理？基东走江湖久了自然留了个心眼，终于他了解到了真相，为了活命他，他只好跟九尾狐家族走到了一起，成了他们的“狐头军师”，不是要活人吗？那好办，他立即献出一个绝妙的计策——贴出马戏团招人的广告不就得了。
可就在这关头，一桩碎尸案开始闹的沸沸扬扬，负责的警官把注意力放到了正在招募新人的马戏团上，他怀疑马戏团内部有人涉嫌，而且对象就是行迹鬼异的二女儿……面对困难重重九尾狐家族遇到了最大危机，酝酿千年之久的宏愿能够实现吗？

The matriarch of a highly respected family orders one of her daughter-in-laws to kill herself unless she can produce a child within a year.

老巫婆去世，儿子旭秀和媳妇接过了老母亲的衣钵。虽然，旭秀希望成为一个渔夫，但他还是遵守母亲的遗言，开始制作弓箭。村里有一个无恶不作的高利贷主一直对旭秀媳妇不怀好意，经常欺负旭秀。媳妇买了一艘渔船，在船主一栏署名丈夫。谁知，在高利贷主的阴谋下，旭秀死在了暴风中。知道一切真相后，旭秀媳妇将弓箭上弦瞄准了高利贷主。高利贷主血流成河，终于倒下，旭秀媳妇的嘴角浮现出一丝凄冷的笑意。

被认为有叛国行为并开始执笔写回忆录的前中央政府长官朴镇旭从美国被劫持回国。总统韩成泰授命李尚奎在48小时内以怀柔手段说服朴镇旭停止撰写回忆录。朴镇旭拒绝了他们的要求，开始回想起18年前的往事。以彻底整治政府腐败，发起革命为名的韩成泰在周围人的拥戴下成为了总统。然而反对政府的大规模示威活动愈演愈烈，总统开始着手调查这些反对事件幕后的主使人。不正当的改革案、暗杀活动......回忆着往事，朴镇旭感到自己是制造那段不幸历史的罪魁祸首，他决心通过撰写回忆录来谢罪。

홍주성(지금의 홍성)에서 동학란(동학농민운동)이 일어난다. 16세의 몸으로 동학란에 참여를 하는 소년 만해, 1천냥을 탈취하여 군자금으로 보내는 활동을 한다. 55세 성북동에 있는 심우장에서 만해는 재혼(유숙원)을 한다. 아내의 삯바느질 등으로 생활을 영위하면서도 만해는 집필과 함께 창씨 개명 운동 반대, 조선인 학병 출정 반대 운동 등에 참여를 하며 일제에 항거를 계속 한다. 용정명월 백화마담에게서 군자금을 넘겨 받는다. 이화영이 군자금을 만해와 함께 건낸다. 1944년 만해는 66세를 일기로 입적하고 만다. “님의 침묵” 시가 흐르며 만해의 업적이 하이라이트로 소개되면서 자막이 흐른다.

Hye-ryeon suddenly loses her parents and stays in the Black Rose Castle alone. One day, she says the castle is haunted and asks for help to friend Ji-suk. Ji-suk goes to the castle with boyfriend Yeong-uk, a newspaper reporter. Just as Hye-ryeon has said, they see a ghost, but Yeong-uk feels that someone is playing a prank. He waits for the ghost in the woods, and when it finally appears, Yeong-uk fights it off. The ghost misses a step and falls off a cliff. It turns out Hye-ryeon has been suffering from a mental disease and has been playing as a ghost.

Three brothers of Jang-Su, Man-Su, and Jong-Su, and Bo-Ki, Su-Ni, and Jang-Su's wife Sam-Ok live together. A group of bandits kidnap Sam-Ok and demands that Jang-Su bring the skin of the white fox. Three brothers succeed in killing the white fox, but the evil spirit of the white fox begins to haunt them. The dead white fox gets incarnated as Sam-Ok, who is killed by three brothers, and Jin-Jin, an incarnated female white fox, marries Man-Su. Jin-Jin kills Bo-Ki who knew she is a fox, and kills also Man-Su and Jong-Su. Su-Ni succeeds in killing the evil fox which tried to kill her, also.

So-dol, serving a prison sentence after being accused of murdering his friend, gets a 7 day leave from the prison when his mother dies. As soon as he and the guard assigned to him arrive in the village, strange events begin to occur. A 5-year old corpse is discovered floating in the harbor and the entire seaweed harvest spoils. So-dal's guard begins an investigation and find that the supernatural is very real in this remote island.