Lee limits himself to his friend’s bookstore
where he can live happily and enjoy the amazing new western imports.

His world is soon turned upside down when his
father is eliminated by a political enemy; the
first Vice-Premier named Cho, and sent away
in exile. Cho also frames a family friend of Lee’s
who oversees the country’s storage of ice, the
nation’s most valuable commodity. With this
action Cho becomes the most powerful person in the land and creates a stranglehold on
the supply of ice to the lower classes. The poor
are forced to find ice in treacherous rivers with
many dying in the process.

Seeing the tyranny that Cho has created, Lee
bands together a group of skilled people to
steal all the ice from under Cho in an effort to
bring him down.