中国青年程桓(理查德·巴塞尔梅斯 Richard Barthelmess 饰)远赴伦敦,希望能够在异国他乡传授佛教教义。哪知道理想丰满现实残酷,抑郁不得志的程桓不仅荒废了事业,还沾染上了鸦片,整日生活在颓废沮丧之中。
一次偶然中,程桓邂逅了名为露丝(丽莲·吉许 Lill ian Gish 饰)的美丽女孩。露丝有着极为凄惨的身世,她的父亲巴汀(唐纳德·克里斯普 Donald Crisp 饰)是一名个性凶残的酒鬼,常在喝得酩酊大醉之后对露丝大打出手。同样悲惨的遭遇让两颗孤独的心越靠越近,终于,不堪忍受父亲折磨的露丝离家出走,程桓收留了她。好景不长,巴汀很快就找到了露丝的踪迹,将她强行带回了家,等待着露丝的,将是又一轮如同狂风暴雨一般的折磨。
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.