When Seong Min, the oldest son of Kang of Suri village, falls sick, he calls Ok Hwa, a shaman priestess. She performs a ritual and finds the calabash containing the spirit of Sam Dol who was the village hut guard. When the oldest daughter-in-law was dying from a disease, they took her to the hut to die. Sam Dol nursed her back to health and they became close. She even became pregnant with his baby which Kang found out. He punished them in secret. Ok Hwa avenges her father, Sam Dol's death by killing Kang. She becomes possessed by a real spirit and the bitterness of generations of women burn and she dances with their spirits.