The country house, the only inheritance from the grandfather, was bequeathed to the eldest grandson. Upon hearing this news, the mother cannot simply stand by and allow it to happen.
The four male characters in this film don’t seem to have much in common: a college student who accidentally comes across a sex tape of his girlfriend, an unemployed man lives at the mercy of his wife. The third man lives with his ill mother and finally, Min Gi who works as a pick-up artist teaching seduction skills. The four men head to the flashy nightclub, leaving behind their life troubles.
For Jung Han, dancing is a direction of life and an escape from reality. Jeonghan dances at a gay club at night. Jeonghan's mother, Insuk, is not happy with such a son.
A struggling filmmaker finds unexpected solidarity and validation when she takes on the job of restoring a classic 1960s film directed by the first known female South Korean director.
Still feeling guilty about her granddaughter′s death, Yebun spends her days in pain. Meanwhile, Okim, Yubun’s old friend in the village, passes away from an illness. Yebun briefly takes care of Jiyeoon, Okim’s granddaughter and her own deceased granddaughter’s friend.
Despite never seeing eye to eye, Minjung's family always gathers for a family portrait on members' birthdays. Minjung's father passed away last year and the family decides to meet on his birthday for the keepsake tradition.
Eun-soo and Eun-ha, a couple, left of the popular music production company to shout their individuality and form a Milky Way band with Dong-eun. Meanwhile, Dong-eun, who was investing to earn living expenses, even invested the band's money, but failed.The rest of the members, angry at Dong-eun who disappeared, sell the guitar that means a lot to Dong-eun... Dong-eun returns and goes on a journey to find a guitar.
Shortly before the start of music class, where the teacher forces the students to sing as a punishment, Hansel, a high school student, realizes that she has forgotten to bring her recorder. For Hansel, the idea of singing in front of her classmates is worse than death, so she rushes home to get her recorder.
After 17 years that Chang-ryeol has spent watching French movies in his room out of his love for French films, he (finally) became a real French. His parents worry about their son so they decide to call in a French doctor, Truffaut for help.
A high school student thinks disgust is the real feelings she can feel. Before the election of the school president, she is looking for her classmate who has been abused by her and quit middle school.
Soo-kyung works as a reporter. She has an older brother, Sung-ho, and younger sister, Joo-mi. She thinks of her two siblings as burdens. One day, Nak appears in front of them. He is their youngest sibling.
When a school girl disappears, suicide is suspected, and one of her classmates is suspected of having goaded her into it.
Despite her disabled leg, the Ph.D. student Jae-yeon is a brilliant researcher with a rare ability to communicate with nature. Having been hurt by her hypocrite colleague and lover, she turns her back to the world and goes deep into the forest to live alone in a glass garden.
Jung-yeon receives a tip-off that her son who went missing six years ago is in a fishing village. Local officers get in her way, trying to cover up a secret that might be related to her case.
A young woman struggles to pay the hospital bills of her vegetative husband. Despite her hard work, there's no hope for him to ever wake up, until an opportunity arises.
O-bok’s eldest daughter is about to get married to an educated, well-off young man, but she’s far from happy. It’s not just hot weather, hot flushes, her daughters’ materialism, her mother’s dementia, her husband’s drinking, or the impending gentrification of the food market where she sells fish – although all of that will push her to take a stand. After trying to cover it up, O-bok reveals to her daughter that she was raped by a fellow stallholder, the man organising the traders against their landlords. Increasingly furious, O-bok eschews the useless police to pursue her own justice, even if it means a physical fight.
Detective Kang gets involved with a drug business to pay the medical bill of his comatose wife. Min-woo confesses to Kang that he has killed his wife, who knows his past. Slowly, Kang realizes his wife's incident and Min-woo are connected.
Lesbian couple Sun-woo and Hee-suh buy a small apartment, which they’ve put everything for. But when Sun-woo loses her job and injures her leg, their relationship begins to sour while Hee-suh is sorely responsible for paying the mortgage and interest. Their stress level reaches a fever pitch when a foul odor starts to emanate from downstairs.
A hospital caregiver tries to stop an unidentified female ER patient, in a brain dead state and pregnant, from becoming a heart donor for a VIP patient.
Ho-bin and three friends were born and raised in Mokpo. They decide to take part in the band contest held in Jarasum after they formed the band, ‘Road No.1’. Then they come up with a plan to go there on foot in 30 days, doing busking on the road. They also contact broadcasting and join Hye-kyung, who is the producer of the broadcast company, on their journey. However, Hye-kyung looks down on what they are doing. What is worse, Ho-bin suddenly breaks away and the band ‘Road No.1’ is in crisis. Will they get through it and take part in the band contest?
Disillusioned with her work life, Mun-gyeong goes on a vacation to Mungyeong City on a whim. There, she and Ga-eun, a Buddhist nun who was taking travelling practice, rescue a stray dog, Gil-soon. The three unite and spend a night of emotional solidarity at an old lady's house.
An old blacksmith discovers he shares a secret past with a troubled young woman he meets on the road in rural Korea.
Feeling stuck, young fisherman Yong-su sees no hope in his future - like a fish in a net. As a last resort, he plans an insurance scam by staging his disappearance, hoping to provide a better life for his Vietnamese wife and his ageing mother. At the centre of this scheme is his captain, Yeong-guk, who reluctantly reports Yong-su missing. However, when Yong-su’s mother refuses to connect her son’s disappearance with his death, the white lie snowballs into something harder to chew.
An elderly woman, Eunja, who lives in the countryside, teams up with Palbok, a burglar, to embark on a spree of robbing empty houses.
The father, who insists on receiving formal New Year's bows in hanbok even in the U.S., is clearly unimpressed by his Korean American son-in-law, whose Korean is shaky at best. The mother, though proud of the son-in-law, is not so fond of her own son’s Mexican American girlfriend. Their two children, on the other hand, are more comfortable speaking English than Korean and prefer hot dogs over traditional Korean holiday food.
Fantastic Parasuicides is an omnibus film consisting of three short films that come together under the common theme of suicide. The three stories are Hanging Tough, Fly Away Chicken and Happy Birthday by indie directors Chang-ho Cho, Sung-ho Kim and Soo-young Park.