一场意外让宾虚(拉蒙·诺瓦罗 Ramon Novarro 饰)沦为了可以被随意买卖的奴隶,他被卖到了一艘兵舰上,成为了一名水手。某日,兵舰遭遇海盗的袭击,就在这生死存亡的紧要关头,身强体壮的宾虚成功挽救了兵舰司令官的性命,司令官感谢宾虚的救命之恩,不仅赋予了他自由,还将其收为养子。
之后,宾虚成为了一名角斗士,在竞技场里的英勇表现很快便为他赢得了名声与荣誉,然而,他的扶摇直上亦遭到了旧有梅瑟拉(弗朗西斯X·布什曼 Francis X. Bushman 饰)的妒忌。梅瑟拉提出要和宾虚来一场战车竞赛,实则想要暗害宾虚,没想到奸计没有得逞,自己的战车却翻倒在地。
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.