A bus stops in front of a checkpoint and soldiers begin to check the passengers.

Ji-san says Buddha is not found only at Buddhist temples, and Beop-woon realizes that he has achieved nothing after six years of practice.

After repeatedly splitting up and reuniting again, they begin living together at a small hermitage in the mountains.

Ji-san, who helps a shaman with the traditional Buddhist ritual of opening of the eyes, asks who will do the same for him, drinks alcohol, assumes a lotus position and freezes to death.

Beop-woon meets his mother, who abandoned him as a child, for the last time and embarks on the long road of suffering.