故事发生在二十世纪初的北爱尔兰贝尔法斯特,刚刚出狱没多久的约翰尼(詹姆斯·梅森 James Mason 饰)参与了一次抢劫行动,并且为了掩护队友而遭到了警察的枪击,约翰尼失手打死了警察,惹上了重罪,成为了全城通缉的对象,身负重伤的约翰尼体力不支,昏了过去。
穷的叮当响的无赖汉谢尔(F.J.麦考密 F.J. McCormick 饰)发现了约翰尼的踪迹,在他的身上看到了发财的法子,他将情报通告给神父汤姆(W.G. Fay 饰),却被凯瑟琳(凯思琳·赖安 Kathleen Ryan 饰)发现。凯瑟琳赶在谢尔之前找到了躲在疯画家鲁奇(罗伯特·牛顿 Robert Newton 饰)家中的约翰尼,就这样,两个人踏上了逃亡的旅途。
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.