Film, birbirinden yapı olarak tamamen farklı iki aileyi konu ediniyor. Ki-taek ve ailesi komple işsizdir ve varoşlarda yaşamaktadırlar. Ki-taek’in oğlu Ki-woo, bir arkadaşının referansı ile çok zengin, bir o kadar da saf olan Park ailesinin kızına İngilizce için özel ders vermeye başlar. Ancak bu onlara yeterli gelmez ve maaile Park ailesinin evdeki çalışanlarının adım adım kuyusunu kazarak çeşitli üçkağıtçılıklarla kapağı Park ailesine atmayı başarırlar. Ancak fazla açgözlülükleri ve beleşçilikleri günün birinde başlarına bela olacaktır.

Parazit

Munseong goes to Gunsan for the first time in 30 years upon hearing his father Gwangdeok is dying. Gwangdeok’s death brings Munseong and his son Dojin together, but they are unable to reconcile. Painful history repeats in father-son relationship.

The Land on the Waves

High school teacher Gyeongseok agrees to look after his daughter Yunhui for his ex-wife’s sudden request. He brings Yunhui with him to the school where he works. There, he leaves Yunhui alone in the car briefly, and when he returns she’s gone. Later, Yunhui is found after having been grievously injured in a car accident. The driver of the truck that hit her, however, indicates that Seik, one of Gyeongseok’s students, was the true cause of the accident.

Good Person

The lover of a ruined actor announces that she is leaving him to marry someone else; while a young woman becomes the subject of various rumors after denouncing her boyfriend for violence.

Our Midnight

A prostitute steals a billion won from her pimp and is found dead in the river. While his pimp seeks to recover the money, he enlists the help of a policeman. After suffering a car accident, this policeman stops at a mysterious retreat, which worships an incarnate goddess in the body of a child.