When you're young, falling for someone doesn't follow any kind of logic. And yet the feelings we experience for that person can last a lifetime. So it's not hard to see why Chang-su (Song Hae-jo) keeps pursuing Yeong-ja (Yeom Bok-sun). She's his first crush and he's leading a directionless life — from welder at the factory to draftee in the military to spongeboy at the spa. So why not run after the one person who's made him feel something deep?
The object of his obsessions is having one heck of a hard life. Raped by her employer's son, she's tossed out of the house then later gets in a bus accident (in which she loses her arm) on her way to her poorly paid seamstress job. Prostitution, here she comes! So yeah, life is worse than tough. It's downright nasty. Does this help or hurt their chances of being a couple?
In Kim Ho-sun's wildly popular Yeong-ja's Heydays, missing limbs and venerel disease aren't life-changers so much as bumps along a very rocky road. Life happens, it's hard, what else is new? Suicide excepting, you forge on. What's fascinating is that this isn't a star-crossed lovers story. It's more about two people just trying to find their way in the world. And when isn't a story about compassion and gratitude welcome?
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