A dying taxi driver and a lost adoptee collide in Seoul—chance or fate?
May returns to Seoul looking for her birth mother after 23 years of life as a Korean-American adoptee. En-seol is a taxi driver suffering from a rare cardiac disease. Following their chance encounter at the airport, they come to help each other, also by chance.
Acting
Jang Hyuk's fragile restraint breaks your heart silently.
Cinematography
Neon-drenched Seoul nights feel like another character.
Director
Joo Ji-hong
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Korean-American adoptee narratives peaked in 2000s cinema; this quietly subverts the 'happy reunion' trope by denying it entirely.
Sung Yu-ri was a K-pop idol turned actress—her casting brought younger audiences to what became a sleeper cult romance.
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