| Plot: | This heart-wrenching film follows the story of a North Korean man who flees to China to find medicine for his wife, but then can't get back home, as his wife and young son's lives go from bad to worse in his absence.
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| Overview: | Yong-soo is an ex-soccer player who lives in a small coal-mine village in North Korea with his wife and young son, Joon. Although living in extreme poverty like many other families in North Korea, the family is happy just to be with each other.
Then one day, Yong-soo's pregnant wife becomes critically ill. Let alone medicine, Yong-soo can't even find food for her in North Korea. So he decides to secretly cross the border to China hoping to find the medicine for his wife. Yong-soo makes a promise to his young son Joon. He tells Joon to take care of his mother in his absence, for he will return with food and medicine in just ten days.
After many life threatening moments in China, Yong-soo is forced into South Korea, becoming an unwanted refugee prohibited to return to his family. Meanwhile, his wife passes away leaving their young son, Joon, alone in desperation. With no one to turn to, Joon decides to find his father.
As his father had, Joon attempts to cross the river to go to China. But he is captured near the border by North Korean guards. He is sent to a youth detention camp where he is beaten with guns and shovels, forced into hard labor during the day and locked up in a cell at night among other young children. He endures the abuse and doesn't give up hope as he firmly believes his father will keep his promise that he will return to meet Joon again.
In South Korea, Yong-soo leads a hard life with very little money to earn but he searches ways to safely bring his son to him.
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