After being fired from the theater, Kim Pan-su had to steal for his son's tuition, but he was caught. The owner of the stolen items happened to be Yoo Jung-hwan, the representative of the Korean Language Society. Pan-su got the opportunity to work at the Korean Language Society by accident. In an era when the mother tongue was banned, the two had to complete the Korean dictionary under the supervision of the Japanese Empire's high-level officials in the short time left...