Layers of Summer 2022
One summer day, two ex-lovers run into each other. This chance encounter is connected to three other summer days across the past ten years.
One summer day, two ex-lovers run into each other. This chance encounter is connected to three other summer days across the past ten years.
Mi-rae, a twentysomething game engineer feels nauseous one day. To her horror, she finds out that the hangover was actually her body being pregnant. Denial, panic and mixed messages from friends, family and the law push Mi-rae into a frenzy of ambivalence. But time does not spare her to sort out her mind. Suddenly, Mi-rae is in the middle of a strange new world.
Seon-hee is a high school girl who used to tell lies to get her friends attention. She leaves Seoul guilt-ridden when her friend Jung-mi kills herself because of Seon-hee's lies. In the countryside where no one knows her, Seon-hee begins a new life as Seul-ki.
Jun-geun, a university student, keeps failing at job seeking in cold Korean job market. Furthermore, he gets kicked out of school dorm. Got nowhere to go, he goes to the beach nearby his school. He meets surfing there and everything changes.
Hae-Soo moved to a small city where nobody knows her. There, she opens a cafe and starts a new life. One day, a customer and a high school student, Ye-Jin, gives her a hand during the cafe's busy hour. Hae-Soo then hires Ye-Jin to work as a part-timer at her cafe. They form a close bond while secrets and confused emotions linger in the background.
7 years ago, an aspiring actress Suyeon came to Seoul after losing touch with her family, and is barely surviving by playing minor roles and chores in a small troupe. Then one day, Suyeon receives a call from Tongyeong and goes down there.
Hochul and Youngran, the owners of two cafes, fall in love with each other and plan to live together. However, they must wait for the time being because of the remaining real estate contracts. One day, they have a small car accident. In order to keep it quiet, they decide to take care of the young man involved, named Suk about whom they know nothing.
Chan-woo, who has been studying to become a police officer for 5 years, joins his friends for dinner to ask for the money to apply for his exam and ends up getting drunk. He completely blacks out and wakes up not remembering what happened in his next door neighbor's room. Not only that, he finds a bloody corpse in the middle of the room.
Photographer Hyeri receives a wedding invitation from her old friend/ex lover. Hyeri is not sure whether she will go or not. Curator Juhyun is very comfortable about her sexuality and confident. Hyeri, who is not honest to herself, falls for Juhyun slowly.
Little Bo-ri's family has come together – as they do every year – to commemorate her late grandfather. Bean sprouts are missing from their meal and so Bo-ri is sent off to market to fetch some. An unexpected detour takes her to places she has never seen before. During her odyssey, Bo-ri encounters all kinds of people, learns new things and eventually meets a friendly gentleman who could be her grandfather.
It’s the year 2075. Jung-won, a pathologist, has a recurring nightmare about her sister’s death. In order to cease the nightmares, she visits the sea of tranquility, called Moon. There she undergoes a strange experience that causes the death of her sister.
A young homeless man happens to draw a series of illustrations over dusty surfaces, gradually recovering from the pains of his past.
Eleven-year-old boy Jeong-ho lives with his mother, whose principle of life is to eat raw food. To the boy’s seemingly bright prospect of well-being befalls a crisis: When his classmate Hye-mi teases him for his refusal of snacks, he musters up all his courage and try eating a piece of chocolate, and it is unbelievably sweet. Now Jeong-ho becomes suspicious about his lifelong lifestyle, and the suspicion grows as his body grows.
Hyun-sung arrives at his girl friends house to ask for permission to marry from her parents. And then, He begins to find things strange.
One late summer. Yuko has a cold and doesn't go to school. She waits for someone in a strange neighborhood until sunset.
A small village in an island. Juyeon whose mom left her only cares about her best friend-Kyunghee. One day, a transfer student-Soyoung moves to her village and everything begins to be changed.
A young man, Bu Seok Kim, has a string of bad luck, loses his future, and decides to kill himself. A lonely middle-aged man, Toshihumi Kurosawa, has a daughter but he is too ashamed to see her. They seem to have dropped out of society. A story about two cowards meeting each other who end up finding their way of life.
Isolated in his kitchen, a young cook is trying to make the perfect red snapper dish.
Ji-young, a new employee of a small company, is devoted to her work, but ironically enough, she is given the task of evading taxes, thanks to that loyalty. Working late with Hee-jin, a co-worker who has dealt with tax evasion for many years, she feels a discreet hostility between Hee-jin and herself. While she moves toward the injustice of her company and society, a fire breaks out in the company building.
Bong-gi, an apartment security guard, dominates neighborhood restaurants as the king of delivery app reviews. When he suffers humiliation from the newly elected representative of the resident, Gap-doo, while unable to contain his anger, Bong-gi finds out that Gap-doo runs a restaurant specializing in delivery.