The Bird Who Stops in the Air

KIM serves as a professor of film studies at a rural college away from his family Having kept the memories of birds from his childhood he intends to make a film based on the images of birds that appear in his dreams In his position as educator KIM finds himself torn between artistic ideals of the film and the realities of life which his students must encounter daily It is in this setting that he struggles to discover the nature of his identity A middle school science teacher Younghee although a longtime lover of KIMs is not confident in their future relationship She asks KIM to accompany her to her childhood hometown During the trip the two begin to realize that each belongs to different realities from the other Younghee begins to desire a relationship of a different sort with him However KIMs ambition is to redeem his own artistic value blurred between film fantasy and reality