Childhood sweethearts reconnect across continents, exploring destiny and the melancholy echoes of what might have been.
Intimate and nostalgic. A date-night pick at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Not on a US subscription service as of Oct 28, 2026.
It stays inside its PG-13, with no sex or nudity and mild language.
Rated PG-13, but by what is on screen our estimate is fine from about 7.
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After decades apart, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are reunited in New York for one fateful weekend as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.
Bittersweet. It earns its ending, but not everyone gets what they want.
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