In the film, nothing is changed in the setting of Korea but one. A duel is allowed. An ordinary office man, Yu Young-Bin, is known as a counselor in his workplace, but also a veteran swordsman with incredible skills. Yet a feeling of weariness has come over due to repeated courses of discipline. While visiting a fencing hall run by his friend, Jin Woon-Gwang, Yu Young-Bin encounters upon an unpleasing high-school fellow named Choi Bon-Guk, whom he eventually opens up to, finding his past self reflected upon the fellow. Then one day a bill is passed to ban duels, the code of honor. Choi Bon-Guk disguises himself as Jin Woon-Gwang to revenge his father's death in a duel. Yet the counterpart turns out to be Yu Young-Bin... Choi Bon-Guk meets his end at Yu Young-Bin's strike. Arriving soon enough to witness Bon-Guk's death, Jin Woon-Gwang races at Young-Bin in a cry but falls to the police's hindrance. After the ban of the code of honor has been enforced, a letter of a duel request arrives at Yu Young-Bin's office. Yu Young-Bin comes up to the rooftop to find....

Working by day, and training as a swordsman by night for over two years, the disparation between the day-working adaptive self, and the night-dueling disciplinary self has been somewhat considerable. Living sociably and adaptively in this society like everyone else whilst practicing swordsmanship, commonly considered as a mere, good-for-nothing wielding of wooden blades, vaguely reminds of a double life led by Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. Based on this experience, "a duel", a taboo factor was added into joining the two worlds. Today's Korea as a vast fighting scene, I wanted to carry in this film, the human will and reconciliation that seeks morality, repressing the temptation towards death-tinted danger and barbarity emitted by a vengeful weapon, a sword.

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