Toseongnang presents a terrifyingly startling look into colonial Korea - where trains and mud huts, complete poverty and airplanes training for air strikes all coexist. The story takes place during flood season in a settlement next to Toseongnang where poor workers live in dug out mud huts that get flushed downstream each year. The main protagonist, Wonsam is a former slave who was taken in by his Seondal. However the relationship between them grows sour as Seondal's wife constantly compares him to Wonsam and rumors about their relationship arise. The story ends tragically.