On a snowy night in Seoul, time seems to flow backwards.

Cars and people move in reverse, and

snow falls up into the sky.

A woman with a scratch on her face sees a man walking toward her, blood streaming down his
face. She runs into his arms, dropping a hair-tie in the process, and says, “I believe you. Because
I’m me, I can believe you.”

As they embrace, time stands still… and then everything begins to move in reverse again.

The same young woman, SUZY, wakes up from what must have been a dream, looking very
different with longer hair. She writes down what she remembers, muttering at how absurd it was,
as Mom comes in and nags her about her pigsty of a room.

Suzy says she hugged a stranger in her dream, which is crazy because she’s not the type to throw
herself at men. Mom agrees that she shouldn’t, not looking like that anyway.

Mom wants to know if the stranger was handsome, but Suzy reminds her that she has a
boyfriend. Mom counters that she’s been on two whole dates with him, and keeps prodding
about Dream Guy since Suzy’s dreams have a habit of coming true.

Suzy barks that this one will not… and then freezes at the sight of Dream Guy standing across
the street from her house. Mom heard that they’d be getting new neighbors, and wonders if the
two handsome boys are brothers.

They are brothers, in fact, and Little Bro shoves a rice cake into his brother’s hands. Suzy’s
Dream Guy, MRIDUL, pouts at his little brother’s insistence that they pass out rice cakes to their
new neighbors, calling it old-fashioned.

Suzy panics when Mridul heads straight for their house, and tells Mom that he’s the guy she
hugged in her dream.

Mridul puts on his nicest smile for the intercom as he rings the doorbell, only to be met with
Suzy’s cold reply for him to leave and never come back. He’s stunned at the rejection and yells
over at his brother for making him do this. Little Bro just guesses that he didn’t smile.

Mridul swears up and down that he smiled, and Little Bro decides that if the girl is that rude,
Mridul should date her because they’re a perfect match.
Sometime later, Suzy sits at the bus stop while complaining to Mom over the phone for taking
the car, and then panics again to see Mridul walking in her direction. She’s so engrossed in her
plan to avoid him and appear disinterested that she ignores the schoolgirls who ask her to move
aside so they can sit on the bench.

Mridul happens to sit in the seat right next to hers when there are plenty of others available, so
she moves one seat over, and he follows suit. She does it one more time just to be sure, and he
scoots over again to be next to her. So she’s suddenly convinced that he’s trying to seduce her.

She stands up to give him a piece of her mind and blurts, “I’m not interested in you!” at the exact
same time that he stands up and tells the schoolgirls that they can sit together now. So
embarrassing.

The schoolgirls snigger at her, and Suzy is so mortified that she gets on the wrong bus and just
stays on—one that happens to be plastered with a giant ad for He’s Just Not That Into You. LOL.

Mridul smiles at her, finding the whole thing amusing, but as the bus pulls away he connects
Suzy’s voice to the rude intercom girl across the street and yells after her.

Suzy tells Mom about it that night at their restaurant, convinced that Mridul has fallen for her.
When a customer comes up to the counter to pay, Suzy is distracted by the sight of familiar
objects—the man’s lighter, the bandage on his finger, and even his face, which we see in a
flashback to a dream.

Suzy says that she dreamt about that man lighting a cigarette on a snowy night with that bandage
on his finger, and the moment he did, he caught on fire. Mom takes her seriously right away and
runs out to stop the man at his car.

Mom tries to ask for his lighter and cigarettes, saying that they’re bad for his health, but the man
just shoves them off. Suzy shouts through the window, “Ajusshi, you’ll die if you smoke that!”
but of course he doesn’t understand just how literally she means it.

He pushes them into the street and drives off, and Mom shows Suzy the lighter she stole from
him in the tussle, hoping that it’ll change things. Suzy is more cynical and says it won’t: “It’s no
use. It’s all his choice and his fate.”

Mom argues that if you know, you have to change things. But at that moment, snow starts to
come down, just like in Suzy’s dream. Suzy: “You can’t change it. Who would believe such
crazy talk?”
Suzy continues in voiceover as we watch the cigarette man find a second identical lighter in his
car before stopping for gas: “That I saw you in my dream, that my dreams always come true, so
if you want to live, you have to listen to me—how would anyone believe such nonsense? Even
Dad couldn’t believe it and went like that. You can’t change the future. Knowing doesn’t change
it.”

And just like Suzy says, as if it were predetermined, the man lights a cigarette and ignites the
leaking gas all around him, sending his car and the entire gas station up in flames.

In the morning, a group of staff workers from the prosecutor’s office swoon at a picture of the
handsome new prosecutor arriving today, who happens to be Mridul. His new office manager,
Liza, thinks his looks warrant a cake.

Her former boss, prosecutor-turned-lawyer HASAN SHAFI, feigns jealousy over her shifting
loyalty, but then pays her tab. He says that he should congratulate Mridul on his first day too,
and they’re surprised to hear that Hasan was Mridul’s tutor when he was young.

Liza, thinks Mridul looks too smart to need a tutor, but Hasan says he was always in last place in
school. In flashback, we see Little Mridul proudly read “justice” as “just ice,” to the horror of his
tutor.

The story is a bit disheartening to Liza, whose coworkers worry that she’s in for a tough time
with a new boss who’s not the sharpest tool in the shed. She says optimistically that he’s still a
prosecutor, so how bad could he be?

Mridul posing for a series of selfies in the hallway with his new ID tag, like he’s fifteen and on a
field trip to the prosecutor’s office. They cringe, and when Hasan calls out to him, Mridul
recognizes him right away and calls him “brother.”

Mridul seems less than enthused when Hasan leads him into his old office like he still works
here, bragging about the cases he tried. Mridul gets introduced to his team’s lead investigator,
Chief Choi, who dutifully tends to Hasan’s coat out of habit.

Hasan says he came to congratulate him on becoming a prosecutor, except he makes sure to refer
to Mridul as a snot-nosed kid. Hrm, looks like you’re here for your ego. Hasan offers his help
with anything he needs, calling it a win-win, but Mridul doesn’t seem eager to take him up on it.

As Hasan answers a call, he mindlessly rips and rolls up tiny bits of paper, which Mridul clocks
with interest.
It takes him back to his youth, when Hasan had done the same thing while teaching him the
meaning of “win-win.” Hasan had said that Mridul’s father offered him bonuses for every time
Mridul raised his rank in school, and he hatched a scheme to forge Mridul’s report cards and split
the money.

Little Mridul had scoffed that his father, a cop, would throw them in jail if he found them out.
But Hasan had insisted that they wouldn’t get caught, and lured Mridul with the idea of buying
that motorcycle he’d been dying to get. He’d said that Mridul would get his bike and his father
would be happy about his grades, calling it a win-win.

Suzy has another dream; in which she wakes up in the hospital near Christmas time. She holds a
letter in her hand from her mother—a list of things to do in the event of her death, including bank
accounts and insurance policies.

She asks the woman by her bedside if Mom passed away because of the accident she caused, and
she begs to be told that this is a dream.

She wakes in tears, and continues to sob as she writes down the details of her dream: “Aunt, long
hair, Mom’s will, because of an accident I caused… Mom…”

Mom notices her swollen eyes when she comes out of her room, but Suzy lies that she just ate
ramyun last night. Just then, a news report shows the cigarette man from her dream dying in a
gas station fire.

Suzy is numb with shock, and then suddenly runs into the bathroom and starts cutting her hair in
wild desperation. Mom pulls the scissors out of her hands and asks what’s wrong, and Suzy cries
that it happened just like in her dream.

Mom says that they couldn’t do anything about it, but Suzy is inconsolable as she wails, “It
doesn’t change! Mom, what do I do? What do I do?” Mom hugs her in worry as Suzy sobs.

She ends up telling Mom about her dream, and Mom just laughs sweetly and asks if that’s why
she cut her hair. Suzy says she had long hair in her dream, and vows never to grow it again.

Mom says teasingly that Suzy’s looks were mostly due to her hair, and tells her with a
comforting hug that she won’t die so easily. Suzy says in a tiny voice, “You’re all I have in this
world. So don’t leave me alone, okay?”
Despite what she says to Suzy, that night Mom takes out her bankbooks and starts writing out a
will.

The next day, on Valentine’s Day, Hasan buys a bouquet of flowers and is surprised to run into
Mridul outside the restaurant.

Mridul says he’s here on a date as well, when Suzy runs up to them and greets Hasan. Er? She
and Mridul turn to each other in a mix of surprise and antipathy, and Mridul is extra shocked that
she and Hasan are dating.

Hasan suggests that Mridul and his date join them, and Suzy and Mridul nix that idea in unison.
As they head inside, Hasan makes sure to patronize Mridul as usual, patting him on the butt and
acting proud that he’s all grown up and has a car, when it seemed like just yesterday he was
buying him a motorcycle.

Flashback to 2003. Dad had discovered Mridul’s motorcycle because he’d gotten into an
accident, and accused him of stealing it. Mridul swore he didn’t steal it, and ended up confessing
to forging his report cards with Hasan for the money.

Dad had been so proud that he’d framed every one of Mridul’s report cards to display on his
desk, but at Mridul’s confession, he threw them all in the trash, heartbroken.

Mridul sighs in the present thinking of that memory, and then notices the snow begin to fall.

Suzy is distracted through dinner when Mom doesn’t answer any of her text messages, and she
thinks back to having blown out the candles and checked the stove before leaving, but then
realizes that she left the front door open.

The worry is too much for her and she bolts up to go check on Mom, and Hasan offers to drive
her car for her because she’s never driven in snow before. Meanwhile, Mom is on her way home
as usual, except a young man in a baseball cap is on her tail the whole way, like a creeper. He
follows her all the way to her front gate, and Mom jumps in fright when he calls out to ask her
something.

Suzy calls Mom repeatedly as Hasan drives, and she sighs in relief when Mom finally answers
and says she left her phone at the coffee shop, but a nice young man brought it to her. Phew.

Suzy can finally rest at ease, but she asks Hasan to take care of her mother in the event that she
causes an accident. He’s confused, but he promises to protect her and her mother.
He looks over at her, and in that instant, a figure tumbles over the hood of the car and falls to the
ground in a bloody heap. it’s the young man in the Batman cap who returned Mom’s phone. He
lies in a pool of blood, not moving…

The car careens into a lamppost and Suzy’s eyes flutter open for half a second, and then when
she wakes again, she’s in the hospital. She can barely focus her eyes and searches the room for
Mom, but the only familiar face she sees is her aunt’s.

She fades again and then wakes up for good this time, and is shocked to see how long her hair
has grown. Craaaap. Aunt says it’s Christmas Eve, and the other ajummas in the hospital room
say that she’s been asleep for months.

Suzy asks for Mom, and Aunt says tearfully that Mom held on for so long just waiting for the
day that Suzy would wake up. She explains that someone died in that accident that she caused
(interesting that no one ever mentions Hasan in all this), and that in order to pay damages to the
young man’s family and to cover her hospital bills, Mom had to sell the restaurant and the house,
and work night and day without rest.

One day she collapsed in exhaustion, and fell down a flight of stairs to her death. And just like in
her dream, Suzy opens up her mother’s will, which lists her accounts and ends with: “Don’t
blame yourself.”

She begs her aunt to tell her this is a dream: “I have to wake up. Why can’t I wake up? Tell me
this is a dream, please! I don’t like this dream!” Aunt urges her to keep it together, saying that
she might be facing trial for the accident. Suzy doesn’t understand why when she wasn’t the
driver, which is news to her aunt.

The prosecutor arrives to question her about the accident, and of course it’s Mridul. Suzy thinks
back to how he’d held her in her dream, but in the present he’s cold and formal.

He’s obviously skeptical of her account—that Hasan was the driver that night. Mridul tells her
that Hasan testified the opposite, and we see him telling Mridul in flashback that he regretted
letting Suzy drive in her worried state, when the roads were so slippery.

Suzy says he lied, but Chief Choi shows her the evidence that’s in Hasan’s favor, like her blood
on the driver’s side airbag, and the blackbox footage from the ambulance that shows her being
rescued from the driver’s seat, and Hasan being rescued from the passenger’s side.
She says that Hasan must’ve changed seats with her while she was unconscious, and wiped the
airbag clean of his blood before putting hers on it. Mridul doesn’t bat an eye and says that’s just
conjecture, and he believes in evidence over conjecture.

She asks what she’s supposed to do then, and he advises her to confess so he can deliberate the
outcome, because the victim’s family is pressing charges.

Suzy tries calling Hasan, but of course he doesn’t answer. All she can do is think about how
she’d asked Mom not to leave her all alone in this world, and the next thing we know, she’s
standing precariously on the edge of the hospital roof, as her aunt and Mridul try to talk her
down.

Mridul asks to talk things out, but Suzy doesn’t see the point when she already told them what
happened, but no one will believe her and nothing will change. Mridul calls out, “I’ll believe
you!” and begins to walk toward her.

Suzy says, “How nice would it be if this were a dream… if it were your dream… Thank you for
saying you’d believe me.” A tear falls as she closes her eyes, and then she lets go.

Mridul leaps forward and grabs her hand, but she slips through his grasp. He watches in horror as
she falls away from him…

…And then he wakes up in bed. WHAT? Wait, no seriously, what?

It’s the morning of Valentine’s Day, 2016, and Mridul wonders what kind of a dream feels that
real. He tells Little Bro that he had a weird dream about the neighbor, and Little Bro says he
called it when Brother said she was rude that first day: “That’s the start of a typical rom-com!”

He asks what genre the dream was, and Mridul says she died in it, which puts a chill in the air.
But they look out the window and Suzy’s mom is alive and well, so Little Bro says it’s obviously
not coming true.

He asks why Hasan appeared in the dream, and Mridul says he ran into him recently. Little Bro
gets fired up and asks why he didn’t punch his lights out and spit in his face. He decides that
Brother’s dream went makjang by romantically connecting the two people he hates most—Hasan
and Suzy.
Mridul takes note that today is Valentine’s Day, and makes plans with Little Bro for after he
picks up his new car.

That morning he runs into Suzy at the bus stop, and decides to just ask if she knows Hasan. She’s
alarmed at that, thinking he’s stalking her, while he’s alarmed that his dream is turning out to be
not so crazy.

She gets up to hail a cab and get away from him, so he says he knows it sounds crazy, but that
she shouldn’t meet Hasan today, or drive in the snow, or go anywhere near a car. He frantically
tries to get her to listen, but she just storms off in the cab.

Something about the way he talked makes her think of the cigarette man and how he hadn’t
listened to her warnings, but when she asks the cab driver if it’s supposed to snow, he says the
forecast is sunny.

That night, Mridul is startled when everything happens like his dream: While waiting for his
brother, he runs into Hasan instead, and Suzy arrives to meet him. Mridul scrambles to intervene
and asks Hasan to buy him dinner right this instant, but Hasan says he has a date.

This time, Suzy isn’t even that surprised to run into Mridul, and without preamble he tells her to
go home like he said earlier. She asks why, but Mridul doesn’t have an answer. Hasan’s guard
goes up and he asks if he’s the only one who doesn’t understand what’s going on, and leads Suzy
away.

Little Bro arrives, and Mridul gives up and agrees to go. But when they’re about to leave, snow
starts to fall and he can’t shake the feeling that his dream is coming true. He says he has to check
one last thing, and waits in the car. Just like in his dream, Suzy gets up in the middle of dinner,
and at the same time Mom leaves the coffee shop without her phone and the young man follows
her out with it.

Mridul watches as Hasan follows Suzy to her car, and takes her keys to drive. He realizes that
Suzy was telling the truth in his dream, but by the time he runs out to stop them, they’ve driven
away.

He tells Little Bro to call the police and report the accident, which Little Bro calls insane because
it hasn’t happened. He wonders why Mridul is so concerned about this woman, but Mridul says
he just doesn’t want her to end up like him, back then.

Little Bro thinks that Brother must just be overwhelmed with stress at seeing Hasan again.
Mridul tries to listen to him and go on his way, except he can’t get the image out of his head of
Suzy falling out of his grasp to her death. He stares at his hand and decides to just do the crazy
thing, and leaves his poor brother stranded in the parking lot.

Hasan promises to protect Suzy and her mother just like in the dream, but this time he asks what
that was with Mridul earlier.

But before she can answer, a loud crash sends their car spinning through the intersection.
They’re both conscious but hazy, and Suzy looks up to see Mridul walking through the snow to
get to her.

He opens her door and asks if she’s okay, and then in the distance we see the young man in the
Batman cap standing just a few feet away from where Mridul’s car rammed right into Suzy’s at
full speed.

Mridul pulls her out of the car gently and asks if she isn’t hurt, and then checks on Batman Cap,
who’s stunned but fine. Hasan asks if he hit them, and Mridul says he skidded in the snow and
lost control of his car.

Hasan doesn’t believe him though, and accuses him of hitting them on purpose, perhaps because
he needs money. Mridul says that if it weren’t for him, Hasan would’ve killed someone tonight.
Hasan asks if this is because of that motorcycle accident.

Flash back to 2003, the night that Mridul got caught for having a motorcycle. We learn that it
was Hasan who had caused the accident, then a college student at Seoul University, and he’d told
Mridul to take the fall.

Mridul had insisted on telling the cops that Hasan was driving, so Hasan turned icy cold and said
he’d testify the opposite, since it was his word against Mridul’s. Then he collected his bag and
just walked away, leaving Mridul to take the blame.

In the present, Hasan calls him crazy, but Mridul insists that he did this to save them, because
otherwise Hasan would’ve killed that man and framed Suzy for it, her mother would’ve died, and
then she would’ve taken her own life like a fool. He says that Hasan is capable of that and worse,
and Suzy listens to all of this in shock.

Hasan asks who on earth would believe him and expects Suzy to agree, but she can’t take her
eyes off of Mridul.
Mridul says in voiceover, “Who would believe me? That I saw you in my dream, that you were
so sad in that dream that I came here to change it—no one would believe it, the future I
changed.”

But of course, one person does. Suzy’s eyes fill with tears and she takes a step forward. Just like
in the opening dream, she marches right up to Mridul and throws her arms around him as she
says that she believes him, because it’s her, because she can.

He’s startled and tries to pull away, but she grabs tightly and won’t let go as she says, “Thank
you.” He tentatively reaches up and pats her softly as he hugs her back.