full title
LIGHT FOR THE YOUTH (2019)
-
-
Director SHIN Su-won Year 2019 Status Completed Genre drama Starring KIM Ho-jeong, JEONG Ha-dam, YOON Chan-young Running Time 114 min. Country of Production Korea Festival & Awards 2019 Busan International Film Festival - Panorama
2020 Florence Korean Film Festival - Audience Award
2020 Beijing International Film Festival - Beijing Film Panorama
2020 Aichi International Women's Film Festival - Official Selection
2020 Prague International Film Festival - Febiofest - Festival FocusSynopsis Seyeon is a manager at a company called 'Human Network' and lives with her daughter Mirae. Her company manages collecting overdue credit card bills, and recently corporate has been pressuring her due to her low numbers.
Mirae is trying to go to a larger company while working at a small enterprise as an intern, but keeps failing. Continuous failure makes her depressed. Seyeon is frustrated with her daughter Mirae, and gives her advice that only pressures her more.
June, a commercial high school student, wants to be a photographer but works at Seyeon's call center as a student intern for the money. The emotional toll from being pressured to make more calls by his team manager and calling people to pay their bills is too high for young June.
One day June disappears leaving a suicide note and since then a series of mails are delivered to Seyeon.
In the course of finding the cause of June’s disappearance, Seyeon realizes what she has done wrong to him. And she finally understands Mirae’s suffering and reconciles with her.Reviews - REVIEW SELECT -Trailer Stills 
