Berlatar belakang tahun 1980-an di tengah gejolak politik Korea Selatan (setelah peristiwa Gwangju), film ini mengisahkan tentang:
On the first night the new marquee lit up, the crowd applauded as the film rolled. Hye-jin watched the audience—couples, old men in fishing jackets, children with sticky fingers—and felt that the summer had not just been a season but a shaping force. The letter that had called her back had been less an invitation to repeat the past than a summons to reckon with it. Berlatar belakang tahun 1980-an di tengah gejolak politik