Shine

Each night, a homeless girl stays in abandoned houses to get by. In the winter, she leaves the cold environs of Seoul and heads to Busan, eventually finding an empty house in an abandoned part of town. She starts looking for a way to make a living, but it’s difficult to find a job with no home address, no ID card, and no phone number. She ultimately does find work, but her employer takes advantage of her and ends up firing her without paying any wages. No one seems to be on her side in this harsh and abusive world.

Youngbun, a middle-aged woman, leaves her grown stepchild for home after her husband died of chronic disease. She wants to live a new life. Although she’s poor, there is always hope in her loving and energetic self. Young female Han-hee is a Pilates instructor. She, too, is poor, but is diligent and obedient in her daily life.

A girl of about ten carries a little suitcase when arriving at an intercity bus terminal. She was abandoned by her mother a week ago. Not knowing what to do and why her mother left her, she decides to find a man who might be her father and who she has never met before.

The life of runaway girls is exposed to the threats of prostitution or violent situations during the quest to find a place to stay overnight like Eunsoo and Soohyang.

Rey, a middle school student in Tokyo, is on winter break from today. Gyu-ri, a Korean high school girl, comes to meet her father who works in Tokyo. Parents are busy, and the two are bored.