Spring in My Hometown
(Areumdawoon sheejul)

The summer of 1952, at the height of Korean War. Sungmin and Changhee are best friends. They witness something terrible that would have preferred not to know; at a deserted mill, Changhee’s mother welcomes a G.I. while Sungmin’s father stands guard as her pimp. Changhee is determined to seek revenge. The next day, without so much as a word to Sungmin, he disappears after setting tire to the mill while a G.I. and a Korean prostitute make love.
A year goes by. The horribly bloated body of a young boy is discovered in a swamp near the mill…