Yong-soo is an ex-soccer player who lives in a small coal-mine village in North Korea with his wife and young son Joon. Although living in extreme poverty like many other families in North Korea the family is happy just to be with each other. Then one day Yong-soo's pregnant wife becomes critically ill. Let alone medicine Yong-soo can't even find food for her in North Korea. So he decides to secretly cross the border to China hoping to find the medicine for his wife.