Amy who was adopted to an American family as a child, visits a Jjigae restaurant in Seoul. She introduces herself as a chef from US to Eun-sun, the owner of the restaurant who had been looking for a helping hand after her mother passed away. Amy asks Eun-sun how to make Jjigae. Little by little, Amy cannot hide her feelings about Eun-sun’s mother. Eun-sun gradually begins to have doubts about Amy.

An adopted woman who has just arrived in South Korea to find her mother. A woman who has just lost her mother. Jjigae is a story about these two women. I want to take a glimpse of the aspects of our lives which we encounter unintentionally, through the two women’s encounter.