As a hardened police officer during the military dictatorship, Yong-ho brutally tortures student activists. He is shown systematically losing his empathy.
Yong-ho crashes a reunion picnic of his old student group. His erratic, self-destructive behavior culminates in his suicide on the tracks. peppermint candy lee chang dong vost fr eng dvdrip saoc top
Three days prior, a destitute Yong-ho visits a comatose former love, Sun-im, and leaves a tin of peppermint candies. He receives an old camera from her husband—a symbol of the life he could have had. As a hardened police officer during the military
During the Gwangju Uprising, Yong-ho is a young soldier who accidentally kills an innocent student. This traumatic event serves as the "inciting incident" for his moral decay. During the Gwangju Uprising, Yong-ho is a young
By moving backward through twenty years (1979–1999), the film forces viewers to confront the consequences of Yong-ho's actions before understanding the traumas that shaped him.
The film ends where it began—at the same riverbank twenty years earlier. We see a young, hopeful Yong-ho who dreams of photography and shares a piece of peppermint candy with Sun-im.