Romance is sweet and bitter — and life riddled with ups and downs — in multiple stories about people who live and work on bustling Jeju island.

A story about three friends who just turned twenty; an age where you can do whatever you want, love whoever you want with opportunities abroad.

Ji-hyuk is an expert safe-cracker who lives the highlife stealing antiques and jewelry with his team. CHO, a powerful and cruel gang boss threatens them to steal $150 million with him. Ji-hyuk plans to get revenge on CHO, but ends up falling into his trap. However, CHO later realizes it was all part of Ji-hyuk’s scheme. When Ji-hyuk, who was thought dead, reappears, hidden secret relations between the technicians also surface.

Korea’s biggest network marketing scam reveals a far greater network of corruption and conspiracy lurking underneath.

A sequel to Kwak Kyeong-taek’s “Friend” in 2001, “Friends 2” is about three men who are gangsters based in the background of the year 1963 and 2010.