A woman lives on a goat farm in contemporary Korea with her mother, Umma. She dislikes many things about her life with Umma: Umma’s preoccupation with her goats at the expense of her own well-being, the bland breakfasts they eat in the morning, and the responsibilities of caring for the goats are but a few. The woman is visited weekly by Jun—a young male taxi driver and her ex-classmate who works in Seoul—in his cheap car. The two of them are romantically engaged, yet their relationship is fraught with other considerations: whenever Jun visits, he brings the woman an envelope full of cash, which he acquires by stealing the wallets of rich, drunken executives after they hail his cab outside of Seoul’s nightclubs and hotels.  The woman hates Jun’s car and his gifts, and she becomes bored easily when they regularly circle the downtown area and rent movies at the local DVD store. Even so, she craves an escape from Umma’s farm and her rural life. Jun has given her a cell phone, and it and his calls give her a glimpse into life in Seoul. She begins to practice leaving Umma, cleaning up the home before she leaves or preparing food for Umma to have for several days, but never fully leaves the farm. She notices that Jun does the same with her, muting her calls or getting rid of her gifts in small acts that tell her he won’t leave her entirely. While she encounters the financial hardships of selling her goats and the increasing industrialization of the farmland around her, Jun involves her in his scam and asks her to hold the names of executives he’s stolen from in her phone.  The futility of the woman's life finally descends upon her. As Jun and the woman watch all of the movies in the DVD store during monsoon season, she is captivated by a film about a defunct ballet troupe. She remembers this film most prominently—and the comment from the only remaining dance troupe member that “the time missed us.”