A serial killer is terrorizing a neighborhood, going after female victims and leaving their bodies positioned in a very specific way. When Kyung Ju, a struggling crime novelist, gets into a heated argument with his landlady, he accidentally kills her. He tries to stage her death just like the serial killer’s signature scenes. But in order to maintain his cover, Kyung Ju decides to track down the real killer under the pretext of infusing realism in his new murder mystery novel.