A young woman No Yeong won braves the snowy slopes to meet her mother in law in a small faraway cottage. Upon seeing each other, the two smile.
Flash back
No Yeong won is a successful psychiatrist with her own talk show. She lives her plastic surgery husband, Choi Jae Jin, her teenage son Do hyun and her parents in law. Her mother in law Hong Sa Kang, is quite weird preferring to write mystery web novels than to have human interactions even with her family.
At breakfast, she rejects her daughter in law’s food and seems lack luster when she hears she would be given an award. After breakfast, everyone leaves the house while she locks her self in her dark room writing novels.
Meanwhile, Yeong won has a strange client named Lee Se na who comes for a consultation. When she asks Se na her troubles, she replies that she is in love with a married man who doesn’t understand the the depth of her feelings. She says she is annoyed that he and his wife pretends to be perfect to the outside world when that isn’t the case. Yeong won feels odd while listening to her. Se na asks her if she knows everything about her family and Yeong won replies that she doesn’t.
During a church service, Hong Sa Kang gets irritated watching how her husband and his friends fawn over Yeong won.
While Choi Jae Jin drops his son Do hyun to school, he notices he seems forlorn and asks if it’s because of his girlfriend but Do hyun denies it saying his girlfriend is different from his mother who always controls him. But Choi Jae Jin can tell after dropping off his son that his girlfriend is controlling as well.
Yeong won rebukes her lazy junior brother who has quit his job as a sales man after only one month and wants to begin a start up. After sending him away, she opens up a package that has been sent to her only to scream at it’s content. It’s a picture of her family with dead birds around it. Yeong won is startled but does not allow herself to show any emotions. She remembers what her father told her about the ups and downs in life but is determined not to crumble.
Meanwhile, her husband Jae Jin suffers a panic attack during surgery. His assistant Dr on seems a bit too close as she comforts him. She suggests they go out to eat with the rest of the staff but then a young man approaches them greeting Jae Jin who decides to eat alone with the young man. He gives Dr On his credit card to treat the rest of the staff. However, Dr on appears unhappy with this.
Hong Sa Kang goes for a dress fitting and gets annoyed when the owner keeps praising Yeong won and not her son. To retaliate, She tells the owner she has lost her touch and doesn’t buy a dress from her.
Driving along the street, she comes across an old familiar shop, surprised to find that it’s still running. She goes in and discovers that it now belongs to an old friend who had bought the place. Her friend tells her that he prepared her meal remembering how she used to like it and Hong sa Kang can only smile.
Yeong won runs into Jae Jin and his friend in the restaurant. He introduces him as a medical student. Although the guy seems excited to see her, she can’t help but sense she knows him from somewhere. While driving, her secretary suddenly gives her bad news. A man was talking about about her father on a life broadcast. Her father committed suicide after being accused of embezzlement and sexual harassment. According to the man, Yeong won claimed to cut off people from her life but she never cut her father off.
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This causes Yeong won to remember what happened. Yeong won witnessed her father in law Choi Hyun kyu refuse to help her father. Even she didn’t believe him and told him to get proof of his innocence and pick himself up like he always tells her to. But to her shock, her father jumped from the top of their apartment complex and died.
Her father in law is upset about the news being spread and even hires a private investigator to find the person who spread the news but the address the investigator found is empty.
That night, he invites Jae jin to drink and discuss but his wife Sa Kang interrupts their conversation claiming it’s too late and that they should rest. As Jae Jin leaves, he overhears his parents arguing. Sa kang reminds him of the reason she has kept him apart from his son. It is so that his bad ways wouldn’t rub off on him. He has been a cheat all the time they have been married and she has sacrificed so much to protect their family but Jae Jin counteracts that she is delusional thinking she’s the only one who protected their family. He says her arrogance and prejudice will bring the family ruin. Then he storms off.
However, the next morning while going on a walk with his dog, he slips and falls down a mountain slope. He appears to be alright, that is until a huge rock hits and smashes him to death.
Jae Jin calls Yeong won while she’s at work and she’s in shock to hear of her father in law’s death considering he had just sent her flowers and a congratulatory note. They quickly bury him and many come to offer their consolations. There are those who over mourn and cause a scene. Thinking it would bring Sa Kang stress, Jae Jin and Yeong won take her away. However, Dr on offers to take Sa Kang home because someone has to be left at the burial place.
Yeong won stays back but is surprised to see her client Se na in the burial place crying. When Yeong won asks her what she is doing there, the tears in her eyes is enough answer. Yeong won puts two and two together and realises that Se na was her father in law’s lover. Se na leaves with a hidden smile, glad that Yeong won has realised the truth.
Yeong won supervises the workers who are moving her father in law’s things away from the office. In the process, his personal assistant discovers a compartment inside the wall. Everyone leaves and Yeong won tries to input a password on the hidden safe but nothing works. But then she notices the date behind their family picture and inputs it into the safe. It finally opens and Yeong won brings out the file and the USB drive inside it. Inside the file are pictures of Yeong won and her parents. There is also a diary. Yeong won checks out the USB drive and it’s just an old video of Jae Jin when he was a child.
But then she checks out the last video and is in disbelief when she hears the recording of her father in law and another man orchestrating her father’s embezzlement and sexual harrassment scheme. They talk about how they hired his secretary to lie that he had assaulted her in order to force him to join their club when he cannot tolerate the accusations anymore. Yeong won cannot bear to listen further and shuts the laptop, leaving the room in a daze as regret towards her father floods through her. She suddenly hears music coming from her mother in law’s room. She enters, surprised to find the family pictures in her trash and Sa Kang dancing with so much joy on her face.
It’s a great start to the series. Sa kang is truly very strange and I think Yeong won will start suspecting her. Let’s see how it unfolds.