“You ever been to the tail section? Do you have any idea what went on back there? When we boarded? It was chaos. Yeah, we didn’t freeze to death, but we didn’t have time to be thankful. Wilford’s soldiers came and they took everything. A thousand people in an iron box. No food, no water… After a month, we ate the weak… You know what I hate about myself? I know what people taste like.”

Ki-taek’s entire family is unemployed, living in a cramped, dirty basement, but a work of chance causes him to start teaching English to a rich family girl. Fascinated by the luxurious lives of these people, father, mother and children devise a plan to infiltrate the bourgeois family, one by one, as well. However, the secrets and lies necessary for social ascension are costly for everyone.

In a small village on the Dutch border, a mysterious hypnotist, Dr. Caligari, arrives accompanied by the sleepwalker Cesare, who is supposed to have been asleep for 23 years. At night, Cesare roams the city, fulfilling the dire predictions of his master, Dr. Caligari.