影片改编自中国台湾作家九把刀的同名半自传小说，以2000年代为背景，描述一段跨越十五年的爱情旅程。故事围绕着男主角镇宇（郑振永 饰）和他的朋友们，他们一同经历了青春期的喜怒哀乐，但所有人都对同班的女神善雅（金多贤 饰）抱有共同的憧憬。善雅是个气质出众、学业优异的模范生，对于这群男孩来说，她仿佛是遥不可及的梦想。然而，尽管镇宇和善雅在个性与学业成绩上差异甚大，两人却因彼此的独特魅力而建立了深厚的羁绊。

主人公是一个三流诗人，他和爱人之间总是分分合合，反反复复。他跟着前辈进入了自己喜欢的出版社，周边开始出现形形色色的知识分子，他的感情世界也开始出现新的变化。

车胜元和童星严彩英饰演父女，描述车胜元与突然出现的女儿在意料之外的旅行中发生的故事。

Synopsis　　Do-seong (Yoo Min) is a child monk who lives at a small mountain temple with the head monk (Byeon Ki-jong), learning the teachings of Buddha. He becomes attached to a young widow (Choi Eun-hee) who comes to pray at the temple, and the childless widow entreats the head monk to let her raise Do-seong as her own son. Conflict ensues when Do-seong's real mother (Kim Seon-young) appears, but she leaves the temple for the sake of her son's future. On the day the widow is to take the child down from the mountain, the head monk discovers that Do-seong has killed a bird by ensnaringit in a trap and decides not to let the boy go into the secular world. When Do-seong finds out that his real mother has been to the temple, he sets out to find her.　　Notes　　A film that has garnered recognition for its cinematography and direction by eliminating sentimentality and unaffectedly capturing the quiet life of a mountain temple. A Hometown in Heart demonstrates the camera technique and directorial skill of movies that appeared after the liberation of Korea.　　A Hometown in Heart, adapted from playwright Ham Se-deok's A Little Monk (Dong-seung), was hailed upon its release as a masterpiece that marked a new pinnacle in Korean moviemaking after the liberation. Eschewing new-school sentimentality to quietly express a boy's longing for maternal love, the film unfolds the everyday lives of three generationsthe head monk, a young monk, and a little child monkagainst the backdrop of a quiet temple in the mountains. The long shots utilized by director of cinematography Han Hyung-mo to capture the beautiful scenery of the mountain temple from a distance received great critical acclaim at the time. Also, each of the film's characters is convincingly portrayed through the skillful direction of Yoon Yong-kyu. In particular, the scene which expresses Do-seong's desperate yearning for a mother's love and his birth mother's past visit to the temple by combining them into a dream sequence reveals deep consideration for articulating story and emotion via a compressed visual grammar without tending toward sentimentalism. The movie's final scene, in which Do-seong awakens from his dream and sets off down the path in search of his mother, is both touching and beautiful. The film also features Choi Eun-hee, in the part of the young widow who warmly embraces Do-seong with her love, in one of her first roles.　　Afterword　　- Lee Kang-su, writing under the pseudonym of Kwak Il-byeong, first adapted playwright Ham Se-deok's A Little Monk (Dong-seung) into a screenplay, which was then shot for the silver screen with additional embellishments by the director.