This film depicts the passion and frustration of young people who dream of becoming popular rock musicians. Dohyun neglects his studies because he is only interested in one thing - rock music. He comes to Seoul to work and ente rs a band. he meets his future manager, Jeewoo, and makes his debut as a singer. However, the production of his first album is cancelled because it is considered 'not commercial' enough. Dohyun returns to his hometown, depressed. Jeewo, however, finds him and helps him open his first gig after weeks of practice. The gig turns out to be a complete failure. Dohyun and his friends sing in the middle of the street with pedestrians as their spectators. The film ends with Dohyun frustrated over his unsuccessful career as a rock musician.

With the singular vision of a master connoisseur of filmmaking craft, Hong-Joon Kim takes the audience on his journey of personal understanding and reflection in the first three episodes of My Korean Cinema, an ongoing video essay project with infinite possible chapters. Episode One, My Chungmu-Ro, is Kim’s personal memories and reflections on the place once described as the “Hollywood of Korea”. The second episode, For The March of Fools, sees Kim’s reflections on the 1975 classic by the late Ha Kil-Jong, and the record if its mutilation by censorship and unfinished restoration. The third episode, Smoking Women, is a searing and incisive study of Korean gender politics through images of women smoking in Korean films of the 1950s and 60s