Woo Hyun is a Korean man, and Haruka is a Japanese woman. They live different lives, but they both carry emotional scars from their first love. While looking for answers and hope, their fateful encounter will change their lives. It started with one message… Haruka, a stage actress in Seoul, has been in a slump ever since she broke up with her first love. She cannot forget him and keeps sending messages that go unread on LINE. Despite her emotional hurt, Haruka wants to believe in love. In Tokyo, Woo Hyun, an aspiring movie director, keeps on doing interviews concerning “love”. After being deeply hurt by his girlfriend, who thought about getting married, he no longer believes in love. Haruka and Woo Hyun have both grown timid of love. The two of them, who live apart in Tokyo and Seoul, have a chance encounter because of a LINE message delivered to Woo Hyun’s smartphone from Haruka. They exchange messages without knowing each other’s faces and are drawn to each other before they realise it
A young Korean man named Young Ho arrives in Japan to study. He wants to become a journalist, but now works as a paparazzi at a magazine publisher. Young Ho chases after a domestic violence story involving world famous conductor Yoshihiko Shintani and his wife Izumi. The wife then abandons everything to run away from her husband. Izumi flees to a village and lives with an old female painter named Yaeko Tenbo as a housekeeper. One day, Young-Ho and Izumi happen to meet again. When they meet, Young-Ho is being chased by the police. The light shines on Izumi when she hears Young-Ho say “I want to protect you.”
A romantic film about a man struggling with a painful past as he tries to move forward, only to discover that the woman in his present life has an uncanny connection to his past. Together, they navigate the complexities of love, heartbreak, and healing, all against the backdrop of cultural and identity differences in the foreign city.
