An adaptation of the play A Little Monk written by HAM Se-deok. A strict master monk pushes a young priestling, Do-sung, to recite a sutra but he is only a little boy who misses his mother and enjoys playing with friends. One day, an elegant lady from Seoul pleads with the monk to give the boy up to her as an adopted son. Do-sung is excited about the thought of going to Seoul, and then, his birth mother shows up. Master monk scolds Do-sung for killing a life for fun. Hometown in My Heart is a film that suggests an archetype of Korean literary films. The film adapts a story written about the Japanese occupation and its aesthetics are found in long-shots and long-takes that carry the theme of harmony between beautiful nature and matters of human life. The director’s position as an observer adds a tragically romantic trait of the film to present superior beauty. (CHO Young-jung)