Yoon, the bride-to-be, waits for her groom Tae-young on the wedding day but he doesn’t show up without a word. Out of concern and rage, Yoon goes out looking for him all day long and in the dead of night, she arrives at a strange place called ‘Café Midnight’, which opens from midnight until the sun rises. In here, Yoon finally finds Tae-young but something doesn’t seem right. He looks few years younger than now and he doesn’t even recognize her. Will she be able to find her groom from the present in this chaos?
Cinematography
The café glows like a liminal space between regrets.
Acting
Chae Seo-jin devastates with quiet desperation.
Director
Chong Yun-su
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Korean melodramas often use supernatural premises to explore han — collective sorrow from unresolved injustice or love.
Director Chong Yun-su previously explored temporal anomalies in The Phone (2020), suggesting an obsession with communication across impossible distances.
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