Plot: A sixty and something year old captain has been raising for ten years a girl since she was six in his old fishing vessel that is permanently anchored offshore with the intention of marrying her on her seventeenth birthday. He survives bringing fishermen to fish in the vessel and predicting the future using his bow and shooting arrows in a Buddhist painting on the hull of the vessel while the girl moves back and forth in a swing. He also uses the bow and arrows to protect the girl against sexual assault of the fishermen. They live happily until the day that a teenage student comes to the ship and the girl feels attracted to him. When the teenager discovers that the girl was abducted when she was six and does not know the world, he returns to the vessel to bring the girl back to her parents.
Alternative Plot: An elderly man (Jeon Sung-hwan) lives a quiet, monastic life on his fishing boat with a beautiful teenage girl (Han Yeo-reum) he has raised since taking her in as a small child. The pair plan to marry on her upcoming 17th birthday. The old man protects the girl from his leering fishing-trip customers with his treasured bow, a combination weapon and musical instrument. But one day a young man (Seo Ji-seok) appears, and for the first time, the girl imagines life away from the boat.
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