巴黎一间默默无闻的小酒馆里,一位忧郁而孤独的钢琴伴奏师查理·科勒(夏尔·阿兹纳夫 Charles Aznavour饰)。他的生活简单而又单调。热情的酒馆女侍莉娜(玛丽·杜布瓦 Marie Dubois饰)为查理的才华所倾倒,爱上了他。原来,查理曾经是显赫一时的著名钢琴师,在妻子自杀身亡后隐姓埋名于此。莉娜鼓励他重新找回自己走上舞台。然而一日,多年未见的弟弟奇科·萨洛扬(阿尔伯特·雷米 Albert Rémy饰)因躲避黑道仇家的追杀而闯进了他的生活中。查理帮助弟弟逃脱了仇家的追杀,却意外卷入这场残酷的生死逃亡之中。幸运之神并没有眷顾与查理生死与共的莉娜,在激战中,莲娜不幸中弹身亡。查理再度回到了往昔的小酒馆中,一切又回归起始,却物是人非。
Liz and her daughter Amy move to Hamelin where a dark secret in Liz's past is uncovered by the restless spirit of the Pied Piper, who seeks out those who have gotten away with a crime, and punishes them by taking away their children.
More than once, the protagonists in Mimang wonder where they are and where they’re going—it is a concrete, geographical question born from walking around the streets of Seoul, but as the film progresses, that urban journey also proves to be an existential one. We accompany the characters in some stretches of their path—many years separate each of the episodes that make up the film, and that distance reveals changes through what remains. This is not a film about earthquakes, but about small transformations, and the marks of time can be seen not only in the actors’ bodies, but also in that other omnipresent protagonist that is Seoul, whose vitality invades every shot. Like others before him (it’s inevitable to think about Truffaut or Linklater), here, Kim Taeyang reminds us that cinema is the best time machine that has been invented so far.
Two great friends are reunited after five years. Among so many things that have changed, the resumption of connection awakens an old feeling for which they remain unprepared.