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When the title comes up on the screen it appears next to the dead body of a teenage girl floating in a river. A poetry teacher in the film describes poetry as the search for beauty. The juxtaposition of the tragic and the beautiful is a current that runs through this Korean drama. It seems that sadness and beauty go together in life more than we think.

Mija (Jeong-hie Yun, TWO FLAGS) is a 60-something maid who takes care of her grandson Wook (Da-wit Lee, THE FRONT LINE). Her daughter has dumped him on her and the grandmother doesn’t like telling her child anything that might be going wrong. The old woman is feeling tingling in her arm and starting to forget words. Wook is a lazy slob who is running with a bad crowd who get him deep in severe trouble. Mija works for a lecherous old man who has suffered a stroke and needs her to bathe him. She has a hard time dealing with any of these problems directly. Her mind seems completely consumed with the poetry class she is taking at the cultural center.

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