While waiting in a restaurant for her mother to arrive, Haewon (Jeong Eun-Chae) falls asleep, wakes up, walks outside, recognises a famous celebrity, says hello to her, they hug, and then we're back in the restaurant and Haewon wakes up. That was a dream… right? The film moves on, her mother arrives and talks about her moving to Canada the next day, and from there we'ree never quite sure if what we're watching is for real, or a prolonged dream sequence, or a little bit of both.
The film consists primarily of just four, long conversations between Haewon and her mother, then her ex-boyfriend, then a potential new suitor, and then her ex-boyfriend again, but aspects of these conversations are so surreal that we're never entirely sure which plain of existence we’re currently on. Haewon's mother suggests that she enter the Miss Korea competition, and Haewon's reaction is to initially strut her stuff on an imaginary catwalk in the middle of a park, and then randomly go running and screaming off into the distance. Later on there is a random conversation about Haewon's fear of being 'too strong for a woman' (?!), which ends with her laughing her head off.
The primary thrust of the story is between Haewon and her on-off again ex-boyfriend Lee (Lee Sun-Kyun), who is also one of her teachers in college, and who is also married. Their conversations deal with whether or not Lee will leave his wife, but there is no real sense of conflict in their relationship, except for (again) arbitrary reactions and nonsensical arguments that feel all too forced.
The acting is mostly terrible, with no one person seemingly capable to emote in any kind of believably human way, and the directing is stagnant to the point of offensive. Some of the camerawork, including nasty, eyesore zooms that look like they've come straight from a 70s porno filmed on a camcorder, only call even more attention to the film's glaring shortfalls.
The director was clearly going for some kind of dream-like, transcendent tone, but the entire affair is just far too flimsy to warrant much interpretation for the viewer.
