Activist and law school graduate Kim is being persecuted by the mid-’70s Park regime for trying to write a book about Jeon Tae-il, a union activist who immolated himself at age 22 to protest government hypocrisy.
It’s a story about reconciliation of a mother and a daughter. Purification water, the first menstruation, the moon, a pomegranate, a thread-ball and a flower pot of mother. These images are combined in the process of reflection through dream, memory and unconsciousness.
On his way to China, where he is to meet a longtime lost cousin, Kim, a filmmaker, meets a young woman, Young-hwa. When he meets her a second time in a hotel, he decides to follow her until Tae-bak, where she meets up with her sister.
With the help of his family and a coach, an autistic man trains and competes in a lengthy marathon. The young man had always dreamed of competing in an event like that.
Spring Night portrays a poetic state of unconditional love between an alcoholic woman and a man suffering from rheumatism.
