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Filmmaker Lee Hosup explores the reasons why Korean women continue to marry American GIs despite the fact that it turns the brides into outcasts in their own country in his eye-opening entry into the 2007 Rotterdam Film Festival. In the 1980s, anti-American sentiment in Korea was at an all-time high -- a trend that was largely credited to the Korean student movement. Two decades later, Korean women continue to pursue relationships with American GIs. Fascinated by this trend and curious to find out exactly what happens after the wedding bells cease chiming, Hosup focused his lens on Ajuma -- a former Korean prostitute who married an American soldier and moved with him to New Jersey. As Ajuma's story is told, it becomes readily apparent that there is a growing animosity developing between the filmmaker and his subject. This is the conflict that serves as the pivotal point in the documentary, and which eventually prompts both Hosup and Ajuma to reveal their true colors.