On Christmas Eve in Seoul. Young-soo falls in love with Mee-yeon who is his student's mother. This extramarital love affair cannot continue because her husband is back. One day, Young-soo receives a birthday invitation card from his student – Mee-yeon's daughter. He has determined to kill her husband and save Mee-yeon but it didn't work out. In a full of despair, he jumps into Han River to suicide. After all the troubles, he survives and suddenly a girl shows up. Sun-hwa is waiting for her boy friend who promised to come back in one year. She tediously talks about her love story in a café. Young-soo finds himself being attracted to her for some reason and suggests to pass her letter to him. But he has no intention to do it and Sun-hwa, tired of long waiting, asks him to go somewhere with her. Can Young-soo start a new relationship? Isn't Mee-yeon coming? Why hasn't Sun-hwa's boy friend come back?

• JUNG Sung-il Born 1959 in Seoul. He has formerly served as Concurrent Assistant Professor at the Korean National University of Art's School of Film, TV, and Multimedia, and also has been a Visiting Lecturer at the Korea Film Academy. He has been an honorary member of the editorial committee for the weekly magazine Cine 21, and has served as Editor-in-Chief of the monthly film magazines Road Show(89-92) and Kino(95-00). JUNG is also author and compiler of Kim Ki-duk, Wilderness or Scapegoat(2003, Haengbokhan Chaekilkki) and the Japanese edition of Kim Ki-duk, Wilderness and Scapegoat(2005, Byakuya Shobo). He coordinated the workshop with Jia Zhangke at the Korean Film Academy in 2000 and in 2007 and with Hou Hsiao-hsien at the Pusan International Film Festival in 2005, and the Seoul Film Collection in 2006.