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Watershed favourite Hirokazu Kore-eda's (Shoplifters, Still Walking, Like Father, Like Son) first South Korean production is a delicate and big-hearted drama about a young mother who leaves her baby at a church, unaware that black marketers intend to sell it on to a childless couple willing to pay big bucks.

On a rainy night in Busan, So-young (Lee Ji Eun) leaves her baby in a 'baby box', a safe place set up in Korean churches for new mothers to leave unwanted infants. In a twist of fate, he's picked up by two men (Parasite's Song Kang Ho, who won up the Cannes Best Actor prize for his performance, and Gang Dong-won) who intend to sell him at a high price to desperate parents. So-young tracks the pair down and decides to join their pursuit (along with a seven-year-old stowaway from a nearby orphanage), but as they search for a new family, the unlikely group evolves into something of a family themselves...

Heartwarming, funny and moving, this is a film of gentle humanity and great warmth. Enjoy.

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