So Yon is a young defector from North Korea. When she arrives in Seoul, she is sent to an orphanage for a temporary stay where she is then to be adopted in America. Going to America means leaving behind her homeland and her only living relative, a sister named Sung-me. As So Yon struggles to survive on foreign soil with foreign customs, she never gives up her dream to return home to her country and be re-united with her sister.