一把冷冷的男声带来了故事的开始。青春期对里斯本一家的5个豆蔻女儿们来说,是一道迈不过的槛。首先自杀的是最小的女儿赛西利娅(汉娜霍尔 Hanna R. Hall 饰)。她变得脆弱低落,想结束生命,这一切都没有道得明的原因。父母以为,让她去和男孩交往,会改善情况。然而,赛西利娅还是选择了告别人生。
和男孩交往频繁,性情放纵的,是另一个女儿勒克斯(克尔斯滕·邓斯特 Kirsten Dunst 饰)。勒克斯认识花花公子特里普,被和他发生了关系,却最终被特里普抛弃。里斯本父母害怕再次失去女儿,于是失去了理性。他们把四个女儿困在家中,给她们最严密的保护。然而自杀的惨剧就像疫情一样,迅速的扩散。
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.