About the title
Based on a true story, the film tells of a taxi driver from Seoul who unwittingly gets caught up in the 1980 Gwangju Uprising. Following a military coup in December 1979, Chun Doo-hwan becomes President of South Korea. After the shooting of a student demonstration in the city of Gwangju, local residents decide to rise up en masse against the regime. The dictator sends in troops to crush the uprising. Meanwhile, a German newspaper reporter in Tokyo decides to sneak into Gwangju to bring the truth about what is happening in Korea to the outside world. An ordinary Seoul taxi driver named Man-seob is tasked with getting the German into the combat zone and back — though that morning he had no idea he would soon be hiding from military patrols...