尽管父亲是著名的婚外情调查专家,尽管见识过了无数的忠贞感情最终化为泡影,艾莲(奥黛丽·赫本 Audrey Hepburn 饰)却依旧对爱情有着无限的期望和憧憬,她甚至觉得,只有那些明知不道德却还要迎难而上的恋情才能算的上是真爱。一次偶然中,艾莲结识了父亲的调查对象法兰肯(加里·库柏 Gary Cooper 饰)——一个在情场上如鱼得水的风流浪子。
艾莲捏造了虚假的身份,开始在法兰肯面前扮演起了神秘女郎的角色,没想到,自己的纯情和真挚竟然猎得了这位浪子的真心。法兰肯拜托私家侦探调查艾莲的踪迹,没想到这位侦探正是艾莲的父亲。迫于父亲的压力,本来心心相印的两人只得分手,一对天设地造的情侣眼看这就要擦身而过。
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.