Mija a woman in her sixties takes a poetry class and for the first time in her life, ponders poetry. When she returns home, she finds out that her middle school grandson is mixed up in the sexual assault of a schoolgirl and so she tries to get some settlement funds. Mija has two things to find; one is to find poesy for her first poetry and second is the money to persuade the victim of her grandson’s assault. The innocence or metaphysics expressed in the world of poetry matches up with the violence of males in Mija’s life, shaking her to the core. Through this process, Mija learns that writing poetry is not an act grown out of simple passion for beauty, but a struggle in life with violence. Director Lee Chang-dong has always been contrasting innocence with violence in his film. His film [Peppermint Candy] contrasted historical violence with innocence of first love, [Secret Sunshine] on the other hand contrasted kidnapping with religious devotion. In such processes Lee resolves the two conflicted worlds in a person’s inner soul. This turns out to be the process of change in a person itself. (LEE Sang-yong)