An eighty year old man eats alone and walks alone for twenty years after he served his time in prison. Only his nephew and niece-in-law, ethnic Korean migrants from China, stop by to see him time to time. There are no pictures to look back on, so he writes letters to his deceased wife when he feels lonely and explains why he had to flee to the South leaving behind their 100 day-old baby daughter. The nephew’s wife goes to Pyeongyang to see Ok-hee, the daughter of the old m...more

An eighty year old man eats alone and walks alone for twenty years after he served his time in prison. Only his nephew and niece-in-law, ethnic Korean migrants from China, stop by to see him time to time. There are no pictures to look back on, so he writes letters to his deceased wife when he feels lonely and explains why he had to flee to the South leaving behind their 100 day-old baby daughter. The nephew’s wife goes to Pyeongyang to see Ok-hee, the daughter of the old man, and returns while the man wishes to go to the border for one last time. At the border where he could see the North, he has something to say to his only daughter. Would he succeed in going there?less