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The protagonist Guina was born of an ordinary person, with no impressive academic qualifications or outstanding appearance. She works in an ordinary company and commutes to get off work in a crowded subway every day. Although she has a boyfriend who cherishes her very much, her boyfriend's family looks down on her very much in South Korea, which attaches great importance to practical conditions, even though her boyfriend's parents are not considered noble. After several years of mediocre working life, she realized that a "uncompetitive" person like herself would not be happy in South Korea. For people like her, today's South Korea is an era of "five abandonments" (giving up on love, marriage, having children, buying a house, and interpersonal relationships), and the rest is just struggling to make a living. Everything in the future is doomed, and no miracles will happen. One of Guina's lines mentioned that "Korea loves itself, not me. It only loves those who make it shine, such as Kim Yuna, and it avoids those who shame it." Therefore, she decided to find happiness in another completely different environment. Next, she resolutely resigned, said goodbye to her family and boyfriend, and went to Australia. In a foreign country where people and land are unfamiliar, she experienced various difficulties in life and various boyfriends, faced the cultural differences between East and West, and gained a clearer understanding of the nature of Koreans. Although returning to South Korea to marry her boyfriend, who has always been in love with her, would allow her to live a more comfortable and familiar life, she ultimately chose to stay in Australia to find her own, free happiness.