Political prisoner Hyun Woo is freed after eighteen years to find
no trace of the world he knew. The friends with whom he shared
utopian dreams are gone. His Seoul is unrecognizably transformed
and aggressively modernized. Yoon Hee, the woman he loved,
died three years ago. In the company of her diaries, he relives
and reviews his life, trying to find meaning in the revolutionary
struggle that consumed their youth.
