STORY

‘Seeing the world through your eyes, I might come to like it a little more.’
Aoki, a Japanese novelist, takes his son Manabu to Seoul, South Korea, to work with his brother Toru. Toru’s situation is not as he has described it, however, and Aoki ends up helping out in a dubious business conducted in a language he does not understand. Toru’s business partner soon disappears, leaving them without funds. Toru says he has another scheme, dealing in seaweed, and they board a train to the countryside.
Sol is a singer whose music is not selling. Her parents are long dead, and she supports her brother and sister. The president of her management company is her lover, but the company does not renew her contract and their relationship ends as well. Sol, her purpose in life lost, decides to go with her siblings to visit their parents’ grave. Aoki and his family are on the same train.
Toru has Aoki and Manabu leave the train at the same station as Sol and her family. He insists that they have dinner together. Sol’s manager appears, and there is an altercation in which Aoki takes her side. Sol’s brother Jung-woo then offers to give the three Japanese a ride in a truck he has borrowed to travel to the cemetery. As the trip goes on, the six start to get to know each other. Aoki, whose wife died of cancer, finds that the same thing happened to Sol’s mother. The two are attracted to each other, but differences of language and culture still remain; Aoki hesitates. ‘That’s why beer and love exist, to get you over that,’ says Toru, and Aoki goes out to tell Sol what he is really thinking.


■ 16th Osaka Asian Film Festival (2021)
　- Closing Film
■ 22nd Jeonju International Film Festival (2021)
　- Cinema Fest section
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　- Rising Star Award
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