A middle aged Swiss-Korean woman flies to Korea in the midst of the pandemic after receiving news of her mother's death. Due to the measures, she spends her obligatory quarantine in the abandoned parental home. There, she gets confronted by a familiar, yet unfamiliar feeling from her past and present.
Lee Il-hwa
Sanghwa
Kim Jin-bok
Sanguk
A middle aged Swiss-Korean woman flies to Korea in the midst of the pandemic after receiving news of her mother's death. Due to the measures, she spends her obligatory quarantine in the abandoned parental home. There, she gets confronted by a familiar, yet unfamiliar feeling from her past and present.
She has never lived in a high-rise apartment, and she wonders how her sister can live at this height every day. A few days ago she kind of burst in to stay with her sister, and she is now becoming re-accustomed to life in Korea. While seeming to keep a grave secret to herself, she manages life one day at a time with a sense of mindfulness. Meanwhile a certain director, some years younger than her, has asked her to join his project, and after a polite refusal, they have agreed to meet for the first time today. Downtown Seoul is filled with narrow alleys that harbor tiny old bars, and that's where they meet. As they are getting drunk, there is sudden rainfall and thunder.
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
Cheon-ji's unexpected suicide causes her mother Hyeon-sook and older sister Man-ji to be moved into another apartment. Tracking down clues from school, Man-ji discovers that Cheon-ji's best friend Hwa-yeon is behind everything.
When a single mother learns that she has terminal cancer, she prepares her young daughter to live without her, while saying goodbye to others around her.
Dreaming of making a way station for his sister and the villagers who have no choice but to commute along the dangerous train tracks every day, Joon-kyung sends many letters to the President, but with no reply. Ra-hee, who has a crush on Joon-kyung, does everything she can to help him meet the President.
Romances end in blood and the frail hopes of individuals are torn apart in a vile karmic continuity of colonialism, civil war and occupation. After surviving Japanese colonization, Korea became the first war zone of the Cold War. The legacy of war remains today in this divided country.
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The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.