A young couple is discussing suicide of a friend in a cafe with classical music in the background. The girl blames the man for the death of friend and he denies it. A woman in the corner is writing stories she overhears in the cafe. A middle-aged man from another table asks a woman to let him share her place. The film intertwines a few stories of different characters. In this film, director Hong Sangsoo ponders on the notion of death from various points of view. Characters are hurt, in pain or disappointed as a result of death around them. New meaning is bestowed upon their actions in the phantomic shadow of death. Kim Min-hee, a narrator with an observer’s point of view, reminds us of the death and simultaneously of the value of living. The film is short, yet it echoes deep and long flowing with dramatic music scores such as Franz Schubert’s Impromptu, Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin and Tannhäuser and Jacques Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld. (Nam Dong-chul)