"Produced and Distributed by Art Cinema" "Have I crossed the desert now?" "My husband once said to me." "'Everybody has a desert of his own to cross. '" "Whenever I come to meet my husband," "I always ask myself." "Where about on the desert am I standing now?" "Choi Jin-shil" "Park Shin-yang" "Written by Jo Hwan-yoo Lee Jeong-gook Kim Moo-ryung" "Executive Director Lee Wan-ho" "Chief Executive Director Kim Jin-moon" "Directed by Lee Jeong-gook" "Ouch!" "Ouch!" " Sorry!" " It's okay." "Bye!" "Hey, can you catch up that train?" "Relax." "I've been driving for 3o years." "Hey, press the horns." "Okay!" "There, the train!" "We're close." "Hurry, hurry up!" "Hey, slow down, slow down!" "Here!" "Here!" "Lady, Iet's see the ticket please." "In fact..." "You don't have the ticket?" "No, it's not that I don't have it..." "There..." "Sorry, professor." "Yes, I found my purse." "I'II catch the next train." "Okay, see you later." "Aren't you in trouble?" "No." "The coffee has cooled down." "Shall I order a new one?" "No, it's fine, I am hot." "Thanks about today." "It's my first time getting my purse back, when it's been lost." "You bring this flower from the station, don't you?" "Oh, yeah, you know about it?" "I am really curious, who gives them out." "This plants makes my starting of a week happy." "Oh, yeah?" "Would this cup of coffee do?" "Of course it doesn't." "Oh, what else can I do then?" "Come and visit my arboretum." " Arboretum?" " Yes." "Hello!" "Hi, Soo-yeong!" "Sorry, it's late, my papers." "Okay, keep the due date, next time." "I promise I will." "You seem to have a fascinating thing today." " Do I seem so?" " Yes." "That one there is pitch pine tree." "Do you the difference between a pine tree and a pine nut tree?" "No." "Pine trees have 2 leaves like this." "And pine nut trees have 5 leaves." "I thought you'd work in front of desks and computers because you said it was an R  D center." "The whole place is our R  D center and labs." "Wow." "What is that flower called?" "That flower is bloomed here?" "What flower is it?" "Uhm..." "It is..." "What is it?" "Its name is a Iittle..." "funny." "It's called 'lady's-slipper'." "How can you keep all the names of the trees and flowers in your head?" "It's same with people." "We can't remember people's names just by seeing them once." "Like we get close to each other by eating and drinking together." "It's same with trees." "I visit often and say hi to them, I get to know them that way." "Hwan-yoo!" "Oh, hi there!" "Welcome to our arboretum." "Oh, hi!" "I had to see who the girl came for Hwan-yoo was." "On your way to the seedling house?" "Yes." "Don't sway his heart." "He has to leave for his studies abroad." " See you." " See you." "I planned to go out by next semester but I haven't made up my mind yet." "Why not?" "It sounds great." "Oh no, where should we go?" "Hold my hand, run!" "Come back next time, with your parents." "I will take you around." "My father passed away when I was young." "My mother got re-married and emigrated." "Oh, I'm sorry." "My parents all passed away when I was young." "Both of them." "We have many things in common." "I had nobody to discuss with, when I wanted to talk to someone." "So, when I have to make up my mind for something important," "I always toss this coin." "And I forget about the rest of the choices." "Shall we bet our destinies on this coin?" "If we get the head, I marry with you." "And if we get the tail, I leave for my studies, as planned." "Wait..." "Shall I bet my destiny on this coin?" "Hello?" "Jeong-in." "Yes, who's calling?" "I am Jo Hwan-yoo." "It's urgent, but can you come to my arboretum now?" "At this time?" "I will go and pick you up now." "Hello?" "Hello?" "They're all..." "BIuebells here." "BIuebells?" "Because they're like belles." "You can only see them in Mt." "Jeombong but I found them here in this arboretum when I was taking a walk this morning." "Have I told you they're designated as national treasures?" "It is a rare specie." "So I wanted to show it to you." " I, Lee Jeong-in - and I, Jo Hwan-yoo," "like a camel and a merchant who cross the devastated desert," "like a shepherd and lambs who seek for green grass," " we promise to be - we promise to be" " an eternal company." " an eternal company." "Congratulations!" "Congratulations, Hwan-yoo!" "Wait!" "What are you thinking of?" "Are you sure you won't regret, Hwan-yoo?" "Regret about what?" "Because you seem to have given up a great thing for me." "My studies?" "Not at all." "I've always wanted to work in a forest." "And the most important thing of all is, that I can live with you." "It's a new day from tomorrow." "Until yesterday, the days were of yours and mine." "But from tomorrow, the days will be ours." "I will do my best." "I will do my best to help you grant your wish, carrying on your studies." "Thank you, Hwan-yoo." "Hwan-yoo!" " Hwan-yoo!" " Yes." " Hwan-yoo." " Yes, I'm here." "What are you doing?" "It's Monday today, isn't it?" "Yes, why?" "What is this?" "I wanted to give this to you myself." "It was really nice to see you getting these plants." "So, I wanted to give it to you with my own hands." "So, you must be the one..." "I asked the stationmaster." "It must be you!" "It was you!" "Yes, come in." "Did you have a sweet honeymoon?" "Yes." "Sorry, I couldn't visit you earlier." "I'II come back with my husband soon." "Okay, marriage shouldn't make you give up being a professor." "Yes, I know." "This alarming kettle works too well." "The house might fall down." "Isn't it tough for you, attending your school from here?" "No, it's fine." "I think I am related to trains." "Why?" "Just..." "Everything is amazing." "It's delicious." " Oh, I have to get this." " Hi, there." "How much is this, and how much is this?" " 1 dollar each." " Are they same?" "Hwan-yoo, what do you think of this?" "Don't you Iike the color?" "Is it rubber?" "Ask how much it is." "They have cabinets." "That one!" "Careful, careful!" "How is this?" "It's gorgeous." "You're like a king." "Come on, sit here." "How about me?" "Oh, you go with it." "You look like a queen." "Don't kid me and just give me the authority." "Give you what?" "The authority." "The queen has to solve how to fill the money we're short of." " Shall I refund this?" " No." "It's funny." "This is the only thing we bought, shopping in the market for 2 hours." "I fixed it because you didn't like the sound." "And it still doesn't sound very nice." "You don't have any class today, don't you?" "No." "Go in now." "I want to go with you too." "See you." "Bye, honey." "Bye." "Now, if there is anybody with a good suggestion, please say it out." "You should know that our arboretum is targeted for the whole nation's nature studies." "Green class is proceed for such intentions." "AII staffs have prepared well and we've accomplished a good result." "If we have some lacking points, the time wasn't enough for people to experience nature in more detail and realistically." "Love for nature that is too broad, should be made more specifically." "Let's eat now." "It's pretty." "It works now." "Here, Gimbab." "Gimbab made by my Jeong-in." "How do you Iike it?" "You should practice more on making Gimbab." "Nobody would've eaten it if it weren't for me." "This won't open." "Give it to me." "Say hi to her." "Say hi." "How do you do, I am Lee Jeong-in." "What is your name?" "I am Jo Hwan-yoo." "Hwan-yoo?" "She has the name after me." "How old do you think she is?" "Around... 4o thousand thousand years old." "4o thousand thousand makes no sense." "She is the same age as me." "My father planed it in the year I was born." "Did you father work here too?" "Yes, and he died here too." "Korean Literature Department." "Hwan-yoo, it's me." "You have a class?" "I am about to go in." "I just came to think of it, what do you want for your birthday?" "For my birthday?" "Well..." "Oh, a letter." "A letter?" "What for?" "Yes, a love letter." "I've never written a letter in my Iife." "Not even those encouraging letters to soldiers." "Can you say something else?" "No, I want a letter." "We didn't have a chance to write a letter to each other." "Hello?" "Yes, wait!" "A letter, okay?" "What's up?" " Here you go!" " Oh, you scared me." "Happy birthday!" "Thank you." "What happened to my letter?" "Am I having it?" "Of course it's here" " close your eyes." " close my eye?" "I will read it out to you." "Now, close them." "Dear Jeong-in." "Thinking about you, is always in the scene where you're sitting." "What's that?" "What's wrong with it?" "Listen, close your eyes!" "It's like a mere thing like the sun sets and the wind breezes but some time, when you're hopelessly lost in pain," "I will call you with the mere-ness that's been delivered for a Iong time." "The reason I truly truly love you" "lies where my love towards you turned into longing for you." "It's non sense." "What kind of a letter is that?" "What's wrong with it?" "It's a happy letter." "Want to see it?" "It took me a week searching it." "Here you go, a happy letter." "Thanks." "Don't you have classes today?" "The semester ended yesterday." "I want to have some holidays too." "Hwan-yoo... we've run out of money now." "Will you look up what 'insane' means in the dictionary?" "Where's my watch?" "So, you're going insane?" "Lee Jeong-in, I am home." "Come in, come on in." "Hi." "Come in." "Long time, Jeong-in." "We have some guests." "We haven't had our meals yet." "Sorry to bother you." "Just an extra plate would do." "This is how we live." "We had a Iittle quarrel this morning." "So, you have some spare time, as you're on holiday." "You guys are having fun." "Oh, I didn't know a bowl of rice costs 1,3oo Won." "You're having fun." "How's your publishing going?" "It doesn't go well without your help." "Can you help me?" "Jeong-in, you know, he earned money by translating when he was in university." "He earned a fortune." "I twisted his arms to work with me but he won't listen." " Do you want some more?" " Oh, by the way, sorry, I know you're busy, but it's urgent." "please help me translating this." "I know it's little thick." "Okay, I'II do it." "Now, Jeong-in, how much do you stick on this?" "How much do I have to stick on this?" "Stick in on the grapes." "Oh, it's hot." "Won't we have a Iittle break?" "You take some rest." "play with me." "No, I have to finish this off." "I didn't know I'd be this busy even during the holidays..." "I have to finish my thesis by next month." "Wow, it's cool." "Lee Jeong-in." "Yes?" "Come out!" "Quick, quick!" "What's up?" "I'm sorry." "I just wanted to have some fun because you said you're hot." "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." "I Iove you, I Iove you, stop it." "Hwan-yoo!" " Hwan-yoo" " It hurts." "What is this?" "It's a medical herb raised in our forest." "It's very effective." "He is an expert on herbs." "Even better than doctors." "although he has no license." "I'II leave it here." "Put it on a few times more." "It's a remedy if you put it on well but it's poison if you drink it." "Got it." "It was used to kill people, in the old days." "Really?" "A bike?" "Yes, I got it from uncle Byung-il." "It's brand new." "It's decent, isn't it?" "Can you ride it, though?" "Hop on." "No." "Come on." " You sure you can ride it?" " Of course." " Hold tightly." " Okay." "Hold tightly." "Let' go now." "What is 'Stand By Me' in Korean?" "Does it mean, 'Stay next to me'?" "Yes, it's, 'Stay next to me'" "Stay next to me!" "That stone says hi." "Yes, it says plop." "What's wrong?" "Oh, what's the matter with me?" "I feel cold here." "Let's go." "How is your thesis going?" "Not bad." " Good." " Thanks." "How long have been here?" "I just came, give me the book." "Aren't they heavy?" " Let's go." " Wait, Hwan-yoo." "Careful, careful!" "I'm wet." " Some coffee?" " Yes." "Thank you." "I don't even have the energy to wash my feet." "Come out." "Out?" "Come on out." " What for?" " Just come on out." " What are you doing?" " Just sit still." "Your feet." "Don't work too hard." "I'd rather have a wife than a professor." "It's a shame." "What?" "Why couldn't I meet you earlier?" " Are you awake?" " Yes." "I was about to wake you up when the coffee's ready." " You didn't catch cold, did you?" " No." "Rain stopped." "Did you hear the thunder during the night?" "No, I didn't." " Look at your hair." " What's wrong?" "Ouch, it's hot!" "Are you okay?" "Tissue, tissue." "What's wrong with me?" "Careful, lift your foot." "Am I still being nervous in front you?" "What's wrong?" "What's wrong?" "Are you still feeling bad?" "Did you eat something wrong?" "Am I catching cold?" "Might be, shall I find some pills?" "No, I'm fine." "Why?" "I still feel my head being heavy." "I think you better take some pills." "Give me some coffee." "You should take pills and not coffee." "Hwan-yoo!" "Hwan-yoo!" "Hwan-yoo!" "Hwan-yoo!" "He has brain tumor." "What's worse is, it is malignant." "There must have been some subjective symptoms." "Like, severe headaches or something wrong in his movements..." "I don 't understand why you couldn 't come in earlier." "Did you hand in your thesis?" "Can you teach next semester?" "Is teaching important now?" "I am okay." "And I want to keep my promise." "Giving up you being a professor makes no difference to my condition." "You can get the surgery if you want, but the chances are low." "Are you all right?" "Yes." "You heard what the doctor said?" "The chances are low." "But still..." "I cannot give up here." "Do you really want me to get the surgery?" "Jeong-in!" "Wait!" "Let's go in together." "I am scared." "Can I go in with him, doctor?" "We tried our best we can." "I cannot guarantee how much time there's left for him." "It can be a week or a month." "I suggest him to be hospitalized." "But he wants to be discharged." "Sorry, professor, I didn't manage to call you." "Yes." "Me?" "Do the lectures?" "Sorry, professor, I don't think I can make it this time." "Sorry about that." "I will think about it some time later." "Sorry." "Yes..." "It's not that I don't have confidence but the timing isn't good" "Yes, sorry." "No, I won't do the lectures." "Why not?" "Don't miss this opportunity." "What's use of teaching or being a professor in this situation?" "What's wrong with this situation?" "Sorry." "I want you to do what you want to do." "What about you then?" "Who takes care of you?" "Your meals, your pills?" "Uncle Byung-il can manage with those." "Do you think that makes sense?" "please do it for me." "It might be my last wish." "I want to see you studying," "like before..." "Do you really have to do this?" "Don't you think about my feelings?" "I know it must be hard for you to accept." "Do it for me, please." "You can do it for me, right?" "Why are you coming out?" "You didn't sleep yet?" "I came out to check if you are studying well." "Are you preparing for your lectures?" "So, you are a professor from tomorrow." "I am nervous." "You will do well." "Let's go in, Hwan-yoo." "It's chilly." "I finished it." "What?" "If I close my eyes now, will I be able to open my eyes tomorrow?" "I'd Iike to decide the time for me to leave." "Hold me." "More tightly." "Don't go." "You can't leave, Hwan-yoo." "I won't send you." "I will always be with you." "Good luck in your first lecture." "Thanks." "Sorry to bother you." "Don't worry about it." "Don't forget the pills are every 5 hours." "Thank you very much." " Bye." " Off you go." "This station is Shinnam." "Please take all your belongings with you." "The train will stop for 1 minute." "The train will leave." "Hi, this is Jo Hwan-yoo and Lee Jeong-in 's home." "Please leave a message." "Hwan-yoo, it's me." "I've always wanted to tell you this." "I Iove you!" "In my lessons, you will study about the nature and structure of poems images of poems, similes and irony of poems." "However, my wish is, I'd Iike you to accept poems as a form of Iife and not as a study." "Like you put your loved one next to you," "my lessons would be rather fun, if you always stay close to poems." "So, this time next week," "I'd Iike to have some time on introducing a poet you Iike, each of you and discuss about them." "What do you think?" "Good." "I might have made some mistakes as it is my first class." "So, Iet's do well for the next semester." "Uhm..." "Can you do me a favor?" "Whatever it is, just say it." "When I die, cremate me and spread the ashes by that pine nut tree." "Jeong-in is like a child." "Studying is the only thing she can do." "If there's my tomb, it is definitely going to give her hard times, for her entire life." "Jeong-in." "Professor Lee Jeong-in!" "Congratulations, your first lecture!" "Congratulations!" "You, stupid boy." "Why am I stupid?" "Jeong-in!" "Yes?" "Will you read that letter for me?" "What letter?" "The happy letter." "Thinking about you, is always in the scene where you're sitting" "It's like a mere thing like the sun sets and the wind breezes." "I will call you with the mere-ness that's been delivered for a Iong time when you are in endless pain some time." "The reason I trully trully love you" "lies where my love towards you turned into longing for you." "Snow poured in the valley as night came upon." "I believe that my love too, would definitely cease somewhere." "But only then," "I think of my attitude of waiting for you." "I believe that in the meanwhile, snow would stop, flowers would bloom," "leaves would fall and snow would fall again." "Love is said to be always something that we don 't know its depth until the time for farewell comes." "I am looking at the root of my love now." "I never knew the love of a man and a woman shared during a short period of time, would be so great and deep." "Jeong-in!" "Jeong-in!" "Jeong-in!" "Jeong-in!" "What happened to you?" "Jeong-in!" "Wake up, Jeong-in." "Open your eyes, Jeong-in." "She hasn't been eating for several days." " I'm worried if..." " Let's go with us Jeong-in." "Yes, you should." "Don't worry and go with them." "Though she's not here, sometimes come and take care of this house." "Don't worry." "Bye." "Bye, don't worry about here." "please take care of her." "Don't worry, bye." "Wait, Myung-ho." "There's a letter." "It's for you Jeong-in, read it." "Dear Jeong-in." "It's me." "Though it's the name I'd been calling many times," "I cannot call it, because it makes my heart torn with sorrow." "I never my first letter to you would be like this." "How nice would it be if you don 't have to get this letter?" "If only I could say beside you, the words I'm about to tell." "Are you okay, Jeong-in?" "What's up?" "Myung-ho, Myung-ho, stop the car." "Hwan-yoo sent a letter." "What are you talking about?" "I want to go back." "What?" "There will be some more letters." "Take me back, Myung-ho." "I feel as if I left the desert," "leaving you in the middle of the torrid desert." "It makes me intolerable." "I remember the days we first met, so vividly." "I hid in the station and looked you taking those plants." "And I chased to give you the train ticket." "I wouldn 't have hurt you like this if it weren 't for that." "I am sorry." "Bye." " Hi..." " Hello!" "Can you check who sent this letter?" "Are you sure, this is sent by Hwan-yoo?" "Yes." "It's his letter for sure." "I've been to the post office and they also don't have any idea." "Is it you..." "No, I didn't write it." "I am curious myself." "A letter for you." "Missing you." "I've been saying this, the whole day today." "My heart is full of you, these days." "I think of you even in the bed, when I open my eyes in the morning," "looking at the leaves by the window." "Isn 't everything messy?" "Don 't you skip meals?" "I know you don 't like to eat alone." "Don 't you go to your classes late?" "But there's no alternative." "You should overcome." "I am okay." "Now I seem to know." "Why you sent me the letters." "It's no longer important who is sending them on your behalf." "I know it will end one day." "But I will wait for your letter." "Jeong-in," "It might sound like an excuse but everybody has a desert of his own to cross." "I hope you'd love your desert." "You might already know how to cross that desert." "Oh, can you do me a favor?" "Please hand in my papers in the drawer to Myung-ho." "Say sorry for me, that I couldn 't finish it off." "Have a nice time in Seoul." "Don 't just stay at home doing nothing." "Hi." "Where are you going?" "I'm on my way to hand in Hwan-yoo's papers to Myung-ho." " What are these?" " I just picked them." "Your baby would Iike them, if he has the same taste as Hwan-yoo." "Try them." "Thank you." "Long time no see." "Yes, how have you been doing?" "Aren't they nice here?" "Yes." "Uhm..." "By any chance..." "I am sorry," "I couldn't reject your husband's favor." "This is the Iast letter." " It won't open." " Give it to me." "It's me." "Oh, it's rather embarrassing." "Do I look okay?" "I don't like to look in the mirror, these days." "It's hard for me to accept my image in the mirror." "You're at school and I am alone." "Byung-il has just brought me home and I had my pills too." "You'd be really surprised to get my letters later." "It was hard for me to write letters these days because my arms are losing energy." "And now I found a good way." "The reason I decided to write a letter to you is to see you in brave heart, even without me." "I don 't mean to forget about me too easily." "Hello, this is Jo Hwan-yoo and Lee Jeong-in 's home." "Please leave a message." "Hwan-yoo, it's me." "I've always wanted to tell you this." "I love you." "I've never thought" "I was a good looking or a great guy." "But ever since I met you," "I wanted to make our love, the best love in the world." "And I wanted to my love toward you be the greatest love in the world." "Jeong-in," "look at me." "Let's make it this way." "It's no farewell, until we have each other in our hearts." "And later, some time later, after much time passed," "let's meet again." "Let's definitely meet again." "I love you too, Jeong-in." "My husband once said to me." "'Everybody has a desert of his own to cross. '" "I met a small oasis, on my way to cross the desert." "Abundant blue water." "Across the oasis which is full of abundance." "I know the way to cross that desert now." "I once crossed the desert in tears and despair." "I am now about to cross it with love." "The love that is softer than the feathers of young birds." "Mom!" "Mom!" "What kind of a tree is this?" " A pine tree." " A pine nut tree." "Say it, Pine nut tree." "Pine nut tree." "Aren't they big?" "Yes, very big." " Very big?" " Uh-huh." " How old do you think they are?" " What?" "How old?" "How old do you think this pine nut tree is?" "Forty ten years old." "There's no forty ten years old."