Shi

The importance of seeing, of looking at the world, is at the heart of POETRY. The 66-year-old widow Mi-ja (Yun Jung-hee) works as a caregiver, while also raising her teenage grandson. After being diagnosed with Alzheimer's, she enrolls in a poetry class — she wants to write a poem before she loses her words. “To write poetry, you have to be able to see well. The most important thing in life is seeing,” says the instructor. But Mi-ja's search for beauty and inspiration is abruptly interrupted by the cruelty and indifference of an ignorant society: her grandson is involved in the death of a classmate, which plunges Mi-ja into a moral dilemma. It is her pain that ultimately allows her to see and write. (bik)