The fragile mind beset by a mercilessly harsh reality is represented by Shin-ae, a piano teacher who is already struggling to stand on her own feet emotionally after the death of her husband. To escape from her predicament, she moves to Milyang,her late husband's hometown. In Milyang ("Secret Sunshine"), Shin-ae has a brief chance to brighten up her depressing life when she meets Jong-chan, a local car repair shop owner. Jong-chan falls in love with her and helps her settle down smoothly in Milyang.
But their romance does not get a chance to develop further when Shin-ae's son is kidnapped and she has no one to turn to. She tries everything she can to get her son back, but life is cruelly indifferent to her wishes again.
In utter despair, she seeks Solace at a local church and finds her troubled soul beginning to heal when she devotes herself to Christianity.
At this seemingly religious moment, director Lee questions the purpose of religion. The answer seems perplexingly mixed. For a kidnapper now behind bars, religion is indeed a reason to keep living. For Shin-ae, God should know when to intervene. For when Shin-ae visits the kidnapper in prison, he calmly tells her that he sought and received forgiveness from God and is now perfectly at peace. Shin-ae is not, and her religious conviction turns into a sense of betrayal and hopelessness.
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