Eun-ah is the only survivor of a brutal attack on her family by a deranged serial killer. She is left paralyzed from the waist down and becomes obsessed with finding and killing the person who destroyed her life. She assembles a group of outcasts, each in need of an organ transplant, with the promise that if they help her, she will give them her own organs in return. (Source: SpotToon)

The Five was adapted to a live-action film which was released in South Korea on November 14, 2013. The series was partially published digitally in English as The Five Hearts by SpotToon.