Two men - an unlikely combination of a corrupt detective and a good-looking gangster - happen to work together as a woman working for a former gangster boss runs away with a Lotto jackpot worth 16 billion won (yes, this cinematic device is now used in almost all of Korean comedy movies).
The boss orders his underling Jae-chul (Lee Jeong-jin) to nab the woman, and Chung-soo (Lee Moon-sik), a detective who is good at getting bribes rather than arresting criminals, gets involved in the chase because of the huge amount of money at stake. The two men finally get a clue of the woman's whereabouts: a remote island called "Mapado." They set sail toward the island, believing that they would finally get their hands on the Lotto money. But what await their arrival are five elderly women, not the young woman who got away with the Lotto. There women rarely see people, and it remains mysterious almost toward the end of the film about what they are really up to on the small yet beautiful island.
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