Ha-jung, a college freshman, is interested in a boy who works at a secondhand book store near her school. Although a clerk is excited by her, he cannot forget his old girlfriend who has been unconscious since a car accident three years earlier. The growing pains mature the awkward and immature twenty-year-old.
Acting
Han Hyo-joo's eyes do everything the script doesn't say.
Cinematography
Dusty bookstores and hospital whites—every frame holds breath.
Writing
Refuses easy answers; lets everyone be a little wrong.
Director
Im Sung-woon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Late-2000s Korean indie cinema obsessed with passive male leads and women who love too hard—this sits right in that uncomfortable wave.
Han Hyo-joo filmed this between 'My Boyfriend Is Type B' and 'Brilliant Legacy'—her 'sad girl in bookstores' era before stardom hit.
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