A phone call from Su-min’s mother about his childhood bedroom transports him from his drab life as a Seoul officer worker to the year 2009 and his summer break as a middle school student living in the countryside. This was when Oasis broke up, Blur reunited and the Jisan Valley Rock Festival was held for the first time. For Su-min, this was his world and its richness was being added to every day by Suzuki, a mysterious friend on an internet chat forum who Su-min feels deeply connected to and wants to meet.

Director AHN Jung-min’s coming-of-age film, shot with melancholy, convincingly recreates the look and sound of the 2000s, a reckoning with mortality, and a universal sense of adolescent disenchantment and yearning to escape which is almost forgotten by adulthood.