A wasted talent enhanced by an unfortunate childhood is champion Mark, who, in a humorous scene, is discovered in a seedy bar by the ambitious but generally noble Jin Ki. The stern Mark worked as a bodyguard or security guard there in the US, and the young man challenges another local fighter to an arm wrestling match. Sometimes it’s so unfortunate to win. Mark wins, but the sore loser hits the young man and Mark intervenes. The owner fires him for hitting a customer, but Mark almost breaks his hand while the elusive Jin Ki escapes.

On second thought, defeats are rarely so fortunate, because after being fired from the bar, he receives a phone call from the kid inviting him to compete in arm wrestling in Korea. He said he would help the expressionless Mark with the ticket. He lied. He said he would fight for the pancho competition. He lied. He arrived and is under the orders of Jin Ki, who is under the orders of the boss, Mr. Yoo, who hires them, as long as they win or lose when he feels like it, according to the bets. Of course, this would end badly for a good athlete dealing with bad businessmen and crooks. It soon becomes known that Mark actually went to Korea looking for his real mother, as he was raised by adoptive parents who died when he was a child.

Mark and Jin Ki end up in jail for beating up Mr. Yoo’s henchmen (he didn’t obey and lost as instructed, causing the thug to lose money). A woman named Soo Jin arrives with some children and says she is his sister, paying his bail. The viewer then learns that Mark’s real name is Baek-Seung-min. He does not find his mother alive, but at least he finds comfort in Soo Jin’s children while he continues to win. This is how they also meet Combo, another backgammon specialist. The problem is that Baek-Seung realises that Soo Jin is not his sister and has lied to him; she only knew his mother and that is why she had the photos she showed at the police station. Mark cannot forgive her, and although he is called selfish by a selfish person, Jin Ki, Mark tells her that he did not come to Korea for the money she helped him earn, but because he considers her family. In the end, he wins and recognises not only Soo Jin as family, with whom he reconciles, among other things because the children ask about their uncle, but also his gym mates. The plot is light drama but it is enjoyable, and as I said, it is enhanced by Ma Dong Seok’s spontaneously dry and expressionless performance.