An omnibus film in three segments. The first episode is "Cockroach." A middle-aged university professor is reading a pornographic magazine in his office before he has to dash off to class. As he is lecturing, he asks a female student to go to his office and get some class materials from his office. He suddenly remembers that the magazine is lying open on his desk in the office. Fearful that the student might discover the magazine, the professor rushes after her and ...
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An omnibus film in three segments. The first episode is "Cockroach." A middle-aged university professor is reading a pornographic magazine in his office before he has to dash off to class. As he is lecturing, he asks a female student to go to his office and get some class materials from his office. He suddenly remembers that the magazine is lying open on his desk in the office. Fearful that the student might discover the magazine, the professor rushes after her and goes up to his office. At the moment she opens the door to his office and goes in, the professor narrowly arrives in time and tosses book on top of his desk to cover the magazine. The student is startled by his strange behavior, and the professor says, "There was a cockroach."
The second episode is "Out of the Alley." An old man who jogs through a residential street every morning sneaks sips of the milk in front of people's houses. He is engaging in this daily ritual when a paper boy approaches, and he pretends to be the owner of the house, giving the boy another bottle of milk and telling him to drink it. He then disappears. At that moment, the owner of the house comes out, and concluding that the paper boy is the one who has been drinking his milk every morning, shoves the young man. The wrongly accused boy chased after the real culprit, who takes off running.
The third episode is "Night of Pain." After treating a business colleague to drinks, a middle-aged man walks through the street and is suddenly struck by stomach pains. He begins to search frantically for a bathroom. He sneaks into a nearby apartment complex and is about to relieve himself in the dark when he is found and humiliated by a security guard.
Epilogue: A debate on political current events in Korean society is taking place on TV. Three panelists gravely insist on the need for conservatism in Korean society: the professor who likes to read dirty magazines, the conservative newspaper columnist who steals people's milk, and the public prosecutor who tried to relieve himself on the street.
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