The Ashes of Love

Directed by Cho Sung-kyu (조성규)

Written by Cho Sung-kyu (조성규)

84min | Release date in South Korea: 2026/06/04

Synopsis
After his wife So-eun passes away, Hyeon-soo returns alone to Hiroshima, the place where they last traveled together. There, he coincidentally meets Yoon-joo, a woman on the verge of divorcing her husband, Jae-yeong. Having come to Hiroshima for different reasons, the two discover that their destinations strangely overlap, and they begin walking together along the paths of their past travels.

Hyeon-soo attempts to recapture the places where memories of So-eun remain in his own mind to replace the lost photographs, while Yoon-joo obsessively records moments of their trip and uploads them to Instagram, as if to show them to someone. However, when Jae-yeong sees Hyeon-soo's presence in Yoon-joo's photos and comes to Hiroshima, the memories the two have cherished begin to reveal a slightly different face.

Hyeon-soo believes the truth is hidden somewhere here, while Yoon-joo says it is time to let go of the memories. With Jae-yeong's arrival, their quiet journey is shaken, and in Hiroshima, where love has passed, Hyeon-soo and Yoon-joo each find themselves facing unexpected choices.