Park Sungeum is an elderly woman who lives in a shabby tile-roofed house. The eaves of her roof are sagging, and the utilities have been cut off. When she is not at home, she goes to a local Senior Citizens Centre. The centre is her shelter when it gets bitterly cold in winter. She usually spends a day, however, by the wooden gate at the entrance of her house. By the gate, there is clutter of clothes, dishes, a table and a plastic bag of miscellaneous items. A cat is also leashed there in the dark, and Sungeum cares for the cat.