1975. Jin-hee is 9. Her father entrusts her to a convent of Catholic nuns that houses an orphanage for girls in the hope that she will be adopted. She cannot believe that this father whom she loves so much has abandoned her. She attempts to run away. In vain, she finally accepts her fate, forced to hope and wait for her possible adoption. Jin-hee gets used to life in the orphanage. Sook-hee, a girl three years her senior, leads her off in her carefree games and tricks. Then t...more

1975. Jin-hee is 9. Her father entrusts her to a convent of Catholic nuns that houses an orphanage for girls in the hope that she will be adopted. She cannot believe that this father whom she loves so much has abandoned her. She attempts to run away. In vain, she finally accepts her fate, forced to hope and wait for her possible adoption. Jin-hee gets used to life in the orphanage. Sook-hee, a girl three years her senior, leads her off in her carefree games and tricks. Then there's Ye-shin, 17, the oldest of the girls there, handicapped by a deformed hip. Her time at the orphanage will be one of multiple and permanent separations, of barely forged bonds destined to be shattered. And at the journey's end, the promise, perhaps of a new life, of a brand new life.less