The ugly Solgeo hears from his aunt that his prenatal dream was that his mother was holding the sun in her chest. From then on, he admires the sun and his mother, dedicating all his passion to painting beautiful women. On the wedding night, the bride dies upon seeing Solgeo's hideous face, plunging him into torment and separating him from his close companion Chunshim, a barmaid and a rich man's concubine. After ten years of struggling before a painting of a woman whose body is drawn, Solgeo miraculously meets Haetsal, a blind girl who regains her sight. As the girl dies, she strikes Solgeo's brush, and the ink that splatters at that moment creates the pupils of the unfinished beauty painting, completing the artwork.