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Every day, Sunwoo (Song Seung-heon) finds a flower, a calla, on his office
desk, without knowing who it is from - but he falls in love with his secret
admirer nevertheless, & after doing some research, he comes to the
conclusion it has to be flowerstore owner Jihee (Kim Hee-seon), and after a few
failed attempts to get a date with her she actually agrees to meeting him at
the Plaza over the phone ...
Once at the hotel however, Sunwoo finds the girl in the center of a hostage
situation, & finally he is killed ...
Three years later: Sunwoo is still overcome with grief about the death of
the woman he loved (though never even dated), as he, suddenly out of thin air,
is sent back in time to shortly before her death. He now undergoes even more
desperate attempts to meet her, knowing that he can save her life, but
ultimately fails in finding her, even though Sujin (Kim Hyun-joo), the girl who
works in Jihee's flowershop gives her best to help him.
So Sunwoo figures out when he cannot keep the victim from being killed, why
not stop the assailant from killing her - & so he finds out Jihee's killer,
Chong Minwuk, who turns out to be a tough drugdealer, but their first meeting
only gets Sunwoo to hospital, where, upon waking up, he finds Sujin at his
bedside.
But why, you might ask, does Sujin care so much about Sunwoo ? In fact it
was not Jihee at all who sent the flowers to Sunwoo's office but Sujin, who
upon seeing him someday fell in love with him - & by sending him flowers
everyday she figured she would win him over ... & the plan even worked -
apart from the fact that he believed the flowers to be from Jihee. When Sujin
finds that out on the telephone when he finally calls to date her, thinking
she's Jihee, she's devastated.
It is now the day on which Jihee is going to die, & while Sujin comes to
the Plaza with a bouquet of callas, Sunwoo finds out
Chong Minwuk's room at the Plaza & wants to take him down before
he can take Jihee hostage, & he's almost successful, until he's knocked out
from behind ... by Jihee, who turns out to be Chong Minwuk's girlfriend.
When a short time later the police arrives, Chong Minwuk only pretends to
take Jihee hostage to get oput of the situation, never intending to harm her -
but neither the police nor Sunwoo know that, & when Sunwoo tries to save
her, Minwuk kills her only by accident, killing himself immediately
afterwards out of grief.
Devastated that he couldn't save Jihee even the second time around Sunjoon
leaves the scene of the crime ... but many a thing do not ring quite right -
Why was Minwuk overcome by grief after killing his hostage ? & why did
Jihee, the woman who sent him flowers on a daily basis, not even recognize him
?
When in the elevator Sunwoo meets Sujin again, holding a bouquet of callas
in her arms, everything starts to become clear for Sunwoo ... when all of a
sudden he is catapulted 3 years forward to his own time again. He now spends
all his spare time in finding Sujin again ... & what do you know in the
end, they even do find each other after all ...
Part romance, part action flick, part time travel story, this movie doesn't
really gain any speed until halfway through the movie, when by a clever -
though neither all that unexpected not all that surprising - plottwist (that
Sunwoo's secret admirer wasn't Jihee after all but Sujin) the whole story
undergoes re-interpretation & does actually finally become interesting.
It's still no great movie though, for the most part just another
fantasy-romance story, & there are some considerable plotholes, but at least there was some thought put into
it.
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