
Driven by greed, hunter Mark Shaw shoots a black cat guarding a ginseng and seizes the thousand-year-old mountain ginseng. This unleashes a series of disasters, including illness in his family and supernatural occurrences in his home. Capturing the cat's kitten to retaliate only worsens his own terminal illness. Guided by a mysterious child, he returns the mountain ginseng and the kitten, finally realizing that greed is the root of all misfortune.