The Way Home is a slow, gentle, beautifully written film about a spoiled little boy from the city who has to go to live with his old-fashioned granny in the country. The city is Seoul and the countryside is in Choongbuk Province, Korea, but the film -- which is dedicated to all grandmothers -- crosses all cultural boundaries in its appeal.

Sang-woo is 7 years old, and he has grown up with his single mother in Seoul. It quickly becomes obvious that the child has been both over-indulged and neglected. As The Way Home opens, he is travelling with his mother to the countryside where his grandmother lives. He is being dumped with granny (who is deaf and dumb) while his mother attempts to get her life together. Mom seems to have equally neglected the generation before her and the one after. Granny and grandson have not even met prior to this visit.
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