In 1911, during Korea under Japanese rule, a resistance fighter named Yem Sek-jin tries but fails to assassinate the governor-general and a pro-Japanese businessman named Kang In-guk. That evening, Kang discovers that his own wife was helping Yem. Kang kills his wife but a wet nurse runs off with one of his twin. By 1933, there are Korean independence movement operating in Korea, China, and Manchuria. Yem has become a captain in one of these factions, but his colleagues are unaware that he is double agent, since back in 1911 he was brainwashing.