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On a very cold winter morning, two friends meet after many years. Hunjoon (KIM Taewoo) who has just got back from USA after his film studies and Munho (YOO Jitae), a part time lecturer at a university, reminisce over the past, drinking in a Chinese restaurant. Hours' of drinking and talks, mixed with the recollections of the past bring them back the memory of a woman. A woman they both were romancing during the same period of time.

After wandering in their own version of reminiscence, they decided to find and meet her, who turns out to be running a hotel lobby bar in Puchon, a satellite city near Seoul. The woman, Sunhwa (SUNG Hyunah), without showing much emotion upon their appearance, asks them to wait in front of her apartment. When she returns, they begin a decadent drinking party till the daybreak. The reminiscence over the past goes on, this time with three different versions and emotions of each of them.

Next morning Munho runs into one of his students on the street and another day filled with emotional ups and downs comes ahead before him until he finally gets home. Another banal yet intriguing story from the director, according to Cahiers du Cinema, who has "a rare and invaluable talent for exploring the mystery of human nature"

Director - HONG Sangsoo

Director's Comment

A few years ago, probably during the Festival d'Automne in Paris, I was hanging out around the Place Saint-Michel. I passed by a bookshop that was selling postcards. One of them showed Aragon with the words Woman is the Future of Man. I didn't know who Aragon was exactly, even if his name sounded vaguely familiar. However, these words had a very fresh sound to them. They immediately attracted my attention without my really knowing why.

A year ago, when I was developing different ideas for this film, they came back to me. Since then, they have remained with me… but I think that the quote masks something. Behind it, I jump from one word to the next without attempting to capture the specific meaning of the whole. These words are so ordinary and cover such a scope of meanings that they end up no longer having any signification at all. I have many words like that in mind. The word "future" describes a time that isn't yet here, something purely conceptual, that doesn't exist. When it comes down to it, the future of man is nothing. Woman would no longer correspond to anything either. In fact, in three words, this sentence says nothing. It is a void but these three words contribute to the creation of a state of pleasant confusion.