Seung-yun is stressed out because he is sent to several private academies after school. His mother reproves him for not living up to her expectations. His father takes pity on him for being nagged on by his mother all the time... Ju-hun, a new employee at a company, is a vegetarian and cannot drink alcohol at all. Chang-su thinks Ju-hun is eccentric and is displeased with him... Su-hyeong sent his son and daughter with his wife to study abroad, but he grows tired of staying alone in his empty house... SONG has lived with her authoritarian husband without any serious problems, but she does not want to stay with him anymore. GWON, an old man, pretends to be calm in the face of his wife’s request for divorce. But actually he can’t do anything by himself... These are not unfamiliar fictional events but rather they reflect the lives of ordinary people in Korea at the present time. Through their stories, shows us how a society imposes normalcy on its people in their daily lives.

소방관이 꿈인 9살 승윤이는 교육을 위해 고군분투하는 엄마의 기대가 너무 버겁다. 채식인에 술은 입에도 못 대는 신입사원 주훈은 넉살 좋은 성격만으로는 회사생활이 녹록치 않다. 아이들과 아내와 떨어져 사는 기러기 아빠 권과장의 하루는 너무나 길고 외롭다. 아내와 엄마로서의 삶보다 자신만의 삶을 멋지게 살고 싶은 송여사. 한평생 권위만 내세웠던 퇴직가장 권생선은 그런 송여자의 태도가 못마땅하다.