In the summer of 1980, a North Korean soldier crosses the DMZ, risking his life to find his father living in South Korea. In the process he gets seriously wounded, and is stricken with amnesia. Three elderly men receive a call from the Intelligence Service, that a man who may be their son has come from North Korea. DNA and other tests have indicate that one of these men is most likely to be the soldier's father. Woo-hyun is a ceramist who grew up in Hamkyung Province, North K...more

In the summer of 1980, a North Korean soldier crosses the DMZ, risking his life to find his father living in South Korea. In the process he gets seriously wounded, and is stricken with amnesia. Three elderly men receive a call from the Intelligence Service, that a man who may be their son has come from North Korea. DNA and other tests have indicate that one of these men is most likely to be the soldier's father. Woo-hyun is a ceramist who grew up in Hamkyung Province, North Korea. His cousin, Yi-hyun, has a grown up son and daughter, and enjoys an affluent wife who manages a lucrative that he served as chairman of the People's Committee while in North Korea. When the three report to the Intelligence Service, they greet a North Korean soldier with close cropped hair and bleary eyes. The search for a son and their lost history lead the men to confront this agonizing, unusual situation. less