A child monk, Do Sung learns the teachings of the Buddha while he lives with the temple's head monk. Do Sung receives motherly love from a young widow, who frequently visits the temple. Childless Eun Hui begs the head monk to let her adopt Do Sung. Then his biological mother appears causing some conflict, but for the future of her son, she just leaves the temple. On the day the widow leaves the mountain with Do Sung, it is found out that he had killed a bird with a trap. The head monk decides not to send Do Sung out in the world. Do Sung later finds out that his biological mother had been to the temple and he leaves to find her.