This insanely dark story enhances our understanding of our humanity, the environment and circumstances of how we grew up. There is something to be said about how a very sad girl slowly woke to another life when she met the person who showed her caring, being nice, a really good person.
The intricacies portrayed by the characters, their triumphs, their failures, their shortcomings and strengths breaks the daily monotony of the daily wage earner, the salary man. The portrayal of middle-aged people who were at one time, young and ambitious, but now broken and beaten, recognized the path of Yu Ra and Ji An, two characters who were saddled with sadness, but chose different directions to overcome this sadness. Their decision to follow their hearts led to changing the lives of those they met along the way.
This story is a masterpiece.