Hundreds of years ago, the small island across from Jindo, called Modo island, became overrun with tigers who viciously attacked the villagers. Everyone fled to Jindo, leaving the tigers to resort to cannibalism and eventually starve to death. Unknowingly, the villagers left one woman alone on Modo with the tigers, and she prayed and prayed to Yongwang, the god of the ocean, to reunite her with her children…