May 18, 1979, Gwangju, South Korea, in the operating room of a hospital.

Under the precise operation of the doctor, a beautiful woman gave birth to two sons smoothly. The child was handed over to the nurse by her side, while the doctor continued to concentrate on suturing the wound of the new mother on the operating table.

The nurse carried the baby to the mother on the operating table and carefully brought the baby to her eyes.

The newborn baby's skin was red, his body was small, his limbs were curled up, and he opened his mouth and cried loudly, which was the first sound he came into the world, both joy and sorrow.

The twin sons cried in front of their mothers, but when the tears of emotion flowed from the woman's eyes, they found that the voice of one of their sons gradually weakened, and the voice became smaller and smaller......

Life is always faced with all kinds of sudden ups and downs.

After the caesarean section, the hostess has been very weak physically and mentally, and there is a newborn child to take care of, so she can't continue her job, so she can only quit her job in the factory to concentrate on taking care of her child.

After the child was born, he also had a two-day condition, spitting up milk while breastfeeding, physiological jaundice continued to not improve, and then omalitis, coughing, and various diseases continued to torment the baby, and also tormented his parents.

Seeing the child curled up in pain on the sheets, the mother's tears flowed down again.

The eldest son died early, the second son was weak, and his physical condition did not improve, and all the burden was on his husband.

Her husband is a very gentle person, even if he comes home sweaty and exhausted every day, he will take a shower and change clothes as soon as possible, and clean himself up to take over his wife's shift. No matter how tired he is, he will never forget to comfort his wife every day, after all, in the case of the death of his eldest son, the deepest blow is still the mother who watched her son leave him.

With the passage of time, the child's physical condition has also improved a little, at least there is no need to run to the hospital at every turn, but the wife's body is still the same as before, the body is very weak, she has a cold and fever at every turn, and the whole person is very easy to get tired. In this regard, the doctor also said that there is nothing he can do, which can only take time to slowly recuperate.

As a result, there is a perennial smell of medicine lingering in the house.

……

February 15, 1980, Chinese New Year's Eve.

The child is 1 year old, and looking at the mother-like facial features, a sense of satisfaction fills the man's heart.

"Our family Tae-ho is so beautiful, we must find a beautiful woman like my mother to be my daughter-in-law in the future. The man said with a smile.

"Go, what do you say? The woman's eyebrows were affectionate, and she shyly slapped the man's back, "Hurry up and serve the bowl." ”

"Nai. ”

At dinner, the man smiled and said to the woman who was serving his son to dinner, "Madam, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, and I have a gift for you." ”

"Hey, what kind of gift?" the woman turned and looked at the man expectantly.

"Guess what?" the man laughed.

"Oh, how can you guess that? The woman said dissatisfiedly.

"Okay, okay. The man hurriedly surrendered. After being in love for so many years, he has no ability to resist women's orders at all.

"At the entrance of the National University, there is a mixed wine restaurant that has moved out, and the store is being subleased, so I will rent it to you. The man smiled and said, "Haven't you always wanted to open a flower shop? ”

"Really?" the woman looked at the man in surprise.

"Yes. The man smiled and nodded: "I've been busy with this matter these days while I've been on vacation, and now the house has been renovated, and I've also contacted the flower garden, just wait until the end of the New Year, and your flower shop will be able to open." ”

"Really?" the woman's face was even more surprised when she heard the man say this.

"Really!"

"Wow!!"

This scene was very warm, men and women happily hugged each other, but when the child who had just eaten turned over and sat up to watch his parents happy, he suddenly cried loudly, and his voice was miserable, as if there was endless sadness that was difficult to vent.

"Oops. The woman hurriedly let go of the man, ran over to pick up her son, and gently patted the child's back to comfort her.

……

On May 18, on the second floor of a flower shop in front of the National University.

Looking at her son, who was sleeping quietly on the bed, the woman's heart was full of worry.

Yesterday, nearly 30,000 students and citizens of Gwangju demonstrated in a demonstration, and early this morning, the news on television reported that President Chun Doo-hwan had declared "emergency martial law" and organized martial law troops to surround Gwangju.

The knives were all put up to his neck, and the man, who had always been cautious in his daily life, finally couldn't sit still, and went to the national university not far from home with his friends early in the morning.

Hearing him say that he was going to march today, the woman was very worried and didn't want the man to get involved in these messy things, but before many things to be said could be said, she saw the man put on a shirt and pushed the door and left, leaving the woman with only his back and a sentence "You don't have to wait for me to eat at night".

Obviously, I said that I was going to celebrate my son's first birthday tonight.

The child's voice was hoarse, and his face was reddening more and more, but he had no intention of stopping. Holding her son and comforting her, the woman's heart was also in a mess, and a gunshot at the door not only frightened the sleeping son, but also frightened the woman in the house.

For some reason, the woman always felt that the color of the flowers on the balcony had become a little dull.

……

October 1985.

The weather has begun to get cooler, and the woman has to clean up and close the store door early.

The flowers outside the store were moved into the house one by one, with a total of more than ten kilograms of pots and soil, and the woman skillfully returned the flowers one by one, then closed the door of the store and turned upstairs.

Upstairs, a cute boy is eating seriously, kimchi, radish, rice, eating with relish.

The woman came to the table and asked with a smile, "Tae-ho, is the food made by Ou Ma delicious today?"

"Well, Ou's mother's cooking is the best. Tae-ho nodded and said happily.

"Tae-ho is so good. ”

After eating, the woman covered the leftover vegetables with a cover, brushed the dishes and chopsticks of the mother and son and put them in the closet, and then went into the house to guide her well-behaved son to learn to read. After taking care of his son after 8 o'clock in the evening, he washed and went to bed, and read a script under the lamp by himself.

This is a movie script brought over by a friend of the woman's father, and it was given to Tae-ho. This uncle felt that the role of a child in the movie was particularly suitable for Tae-ho, so he approached him.

The heroine of the script is a housewife, whose daily work is to stay at home and take care of her son and daughter, and her husband is immersed in work and does not understand the amorous feelings, so day after day. Then, a handsome guy with a personable and elegant conversation ignited the heroine's pursuit of life, and the heroine cheated, and then kept wandering in the new life and the old life.

The woman has a lot of feelings for the heroine in this script, because how similar is she to her?

The man died on May 18, five years ago, and the woman worked hard to raise her son, while running a flower shop to support the family, and the woman was exhausted by years of life. Just when a woman thought that she would go through this life so hard and plainly, a man appeared.

This is a handsome, gentle, and talented French photographer who fell in love with a woman at first sight when buying flowers, and after learning about the woman's experience, he was immediately moved by this beautiful and strong woman, and began to pursue the woman passionately.

The woman soon fell, she was a weak woman after all, and she also hoped to have a strong arm for her to lean on.

The photographer wants to take the woman and the child back to France, the woman has been hesitating, although this dictatorial government has taken the life of a man, but it is still the motherland where she has lived for 30 years, there are traces of men here, this flower shop has the breath of men, everything here makes women unable to give up.

However, when this script was sent to the woman, the woman wavered.

The heroine in the script has a similar experience to a woman, but makes the opposite decision to the woman.

Perhaps, women really need to start a new life.

……

"You promised to go back to France with me?" said a Nordic man in surprise in the flower shop, speaking in a Korean that ran to Kankan.

"Yes, Bernard. The woman nodded, "Tae-ho and I are willing to go to France with you." ”

"Great, my dear, when are you going to leave, I will contact the French embassy to get your visa formalities. Bernard was a little incoherent with excitement.

"No, Bernard, we'll have to wait a while. The woman shook her head: "I have promised my uncle to let Tae-ho participate in that movie, and we will go to France when Tae-ho is done filming." ”