In 1991, After a freshman at MyunJi University was killed by police forces, there aroused about 2,400 street rallies and 13 deaths(including 1 under suspicious circumstance, 2 by plice forces and 10 self-burnings) throughout South Korea.
Embattled military regime procecuted a man named Cahng Ki-Hoon for aiding and abetting his colleague's suicide. Prosecutors argued that he had written a testament one his colleague's behalf. For a wonder, this illogical arguments worked. Finally Kang ended up being convicted, then he had to serve a sentence of three years.
24 years later, through persistently applying for a retrial, he could be free of charges at the last trial. But at that historical moment, any one can find neither his appearance nor the appology of the judiciary. Actually he has been struggling against liver cancer for three years. A few days after confirming that diagnosis, he suggested that he give a little guitar concert of his own in front of his folks. This film will start with that sound of his guitar.

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it.' Garc?a M?rquez, having magically recounted human being's solitude in rash and frivolous history, wrote it on the beginning of his autography.
Demorcratic Movement in 1987 celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. My first mission in this film is awakening that our lives at this very moment are not only since sacrifice of Lee Han-Yeol in 1987 but since that of Kim Kwi-Jung in 1991. And Second one is recounting how contemporary figures, including Cahng Ki-Hoon, around the futile sacrifices can endure and remember their lives in this film. These missions are sometimes arduous ones but not aimless. Because there was Cahng's guitar play with freely crossing the border of life and death at the small restaurant 4 years ago and It's been the so clear beam from the lighthouse to me.

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