An unusual blending of elements comes together in this crime story drawn from Japanese history. During the early Meiji period a number of “Dokufu” (Poison Women) committed a significant number of murders. These crimes were most often committed by wives on their husbands in order to be together with their lovers. At that time women were executed in the same manner as men, to wit: by being decapitated. This is the story of the most notorious of all, Takahashi Oden who, in 1879, was the last woman executed by decapitation in Japan.

In this exquisite melodrama imbued with national allegory, anything that can go wrong does. Kuei-mei, a poor girl from the mainland, relocates to Taiwan post-revolution and enters into a marriage of convenience with an alcoholic widower. In spite of being initially rejected by his children, she guides the family through decades of poverty and trauma to stability with unblinking, selfless perseverance. As Kuei-mei, Hui Sang Yang gives a phenomenal performance that expertly deconstructs the image of the ideal wife.

DRAMA

Go Soo is worried about her immobile husband, mother-in-law, and her obese son who likes snacks. After her husband was deceived by a scammer and lost all his fortune, and turned into a vegetative state, all she can do is scrape chickens in the chicken coop to survive day by day. By chance, while running an errand for Mi Yeon, a high school classmate, she found out about a contract murder plan. If she gets rid of the rich female president, she will be given an additional 40 million won.

She wants to stop Mi Yeon from going to kill her college classmate who has ruined her own life, but Go Soo is shaken by the saying that if you work you will make money. Isn't killing people the same as killing chickens?

Yes, I've decided. There is nothing that people can't do if they put their mind to it!

Years ago, Tae-Sik (Kim Rae-Won) was a feared henchmen for the mob, but after spending 10 years in prison Tae-Sik now only wants to live a normal life. He returns to a place he thinks of as home and to the woman (Kim Hae-Sook) who has looked after him like a mother. Trouble then finds Tae-Sik again, when gangsters want to build a nightclub over the land that Tae-Sik's mother occupies. Once the gangsters attack Tae-Sik's "adopted" family, Tae-Sik goes after the gangsters with pure vengeance.

The bride Yuan Ru Yi's entire family was killed while she was in the bridal chamber, but she was rescued by a masked man. A year later, Ru Yi learned from the information trader Bao Da Ting that his father had killed a thief in order to save the people. With the help of Bao Da Ting, Ru Yi looked for the enemy’s weakness and set foot on the road of revenge.

A housewife named Rika Umezawa gets a part-time job at a bank in which she’s responsible for traveling to customers’ homes and collecting their deposits. In spite of receiving positive evaluations from her boss and customers alike for her courteousness and work ethic, she begins to feel a void in her life. Her husband seems to be losing interest in her and the two of them have been gradually drifting apart.

Soon, she engages in an affair with a university student named Kota and begins embezzling money from the bank customers’ deposits she’s responsible for collecting. As she spends more time with Kota and away from her husband, her theft escalates rapidly in order to fund her trysts as well as her newfound addiction to shopping.

A romantic comedy that is set during the recent flood crisis in Thailand.