亨利(让·迦本 Jean Gabin 饰)经营着一家夜总会,进行一些下流艳俗的表演,擅长跳肚皮舞的劳拉(玛丽亚·费力克斯 María Félix 饰)是台柱一般的存在。不景气的经济和亨利的不善经营很快就让夜总会来到了濒临破产的边缘,就在这个节骨眼上,亨利认识了平凡的洗衣女工妮妮(弗朗索瓦·阿努尔 Françoise Arnoul 饰),在妮妮的身上,亨利看到了过人的天赋,并且开创了“康康舞”这一前所未有的舞蹈形式。凭借着康康舞,亨利的夜总会再度红火了起来,然而劳拉和妮妮之间日积月累的矛盾却在开业的那一天彻底爆发。之后,一位亲王爱上了妮妮,打算给夜总会投资,可眼红的劳拉却破坏了这桩生意。
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.