在一望无际的大海上有两艘渔船,主人是一位年过花甲的老人(全讼挽饰),他依靠两艘船谋生,陆上的人们来这边钓鱼或看风景。老人和一位少女(韩业云饰)一起生活,她是10年前老人在岸上捡到的,此后少女再没有上过陆地。老人等着少女年满17岁时就会与之结婚。 来钓鱼的男人们经常想占女孩的便宜,老人为保护女孩不得不用利箭来警示对方。一天,和父亲一起来钓鱼的大学生(徐智锡饰)在船上为神秘的少女所吸引。老人觉得事情不妙,每天监视少女并不允许她靠近大学生,而16岁的少女也逐渐对外面的事物产生好奇。大学生得知女孩儿将要和老人结婚,就决定带上少女逃到陆地……A sixty and something year old captain has been raising for ten years a girl since she was six in his old fishing vessel that is permanently anchored offshore with the intention of marrying her on her seventeenth birthday. He survives bringing fishermen to fish in the vessel and predicting the future using his bow and shooting arrows in a Buddhist painting on the hull of the vessel while the girl moves back and forth in a swing. He also uses the bow and arrows to protect the girl against sexual assault of the fishermen. They live happily until the day that a teenage student comes to the ship and the girl feels attracted to him. When the teenager discovers that the girl was abducted when she was six and does not know the world, he returns to the vessel to bring the girl back to her parents.