The movie "Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned" revolves around a young girl named Soo-rin who is struggling to cope with the loss of her mother. She befriends a boy named Sung-min who shares her interest in the supernatural. They stumble upon a mysterious glowing egg, which they discover can manipulate time. When the egg is broken, time freezes for everyone except the three boys who touched it. They experience time passing normally while the rest of the world remains paused. As the story unfolds, Sung-min and Soo-rin try to navigate this extraordinary situation while dealing with the consequences of their actions. The movie explores themes of isolation, loneliness, and the complexities of time.
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1. The story is about a South Korean fantasy film called "Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned."
2. The movie begins with a child psychiatrist interviewing a girl named Soo-rin.
3. Soo-rin's mother married Do-kyun and passed away, leaving Soo-rin in Do-kyun's care.
4. Do-kyun works on a construction site on an island called Hwano, and Soo-rin moves there with him.
5. Soo-rin starts at a new school on the island but has trouble making friends and prefers to stay alone.
6. Do-kyun works overnight at the construction site, and explosions occur during this time.
7. Soo-rin becomes interested in wormholes and supernatural beings after her mother's death.
8. She meets a boy named Sung-min who lives in an orphanage and shares her interest in the supernatural.
9. Soo-rin and Sung-min become friends and start exploring the island together.
10. They find an abandoned wooden house in the forest and explore it, where they carve on wax blocks.
11. Soo-rin starts to fall in love with Sung-min and kisses him.
12. One day, Soo-rin finds Sung-min and his friends planning to go to the construction site to watch the explosions.
13. They sneak into the site and find a cave with a glowing substance in the water.
14. Sung-min dives into the water and brings out the substance, which looks like an egg.
15. The egg breaks, and the kids are initially disappointed but soon realize that time has frozen for everyone except them.
16. Soo-rin goes back into the cave to look for her missing hairpin and finds it, but also notices that the egg has reappeared in the water.
17. She comes out to find that the egg has broken again, and her friends are missing.
18. Soo-rin searches for her friends but gets lost in the woods and has to stay the night.
19. The next day, the police search for the missing kids and find Soo-rin unconscious in the woods.
20. Soo-rin tells the detective about the cave and the glowing egg, but the adults do not believe her.
21. The detective is informed that one of the missing boys, Jae-wook, has been found dead on a beach 20 km away from the town.
22. The cause of Jae-wook's death was an asthma attack, and someone had to bury him underground.
23. The case turns from a missing person to a kidnapping investigation.
24. Weeks pass, and the other two boys are not found, while Soo-rin turns back into her introverted self.
25. Soo-rin hears a noise outside her house and follows a man into the woods, who claims to be Sung-min.
26. The police search for the man, assuming he is the kidnapper, but Soo-rin claims to have lied about seeing him.
27. Soo-rin reads Sung-min's journal, which reveals that he and his friends have been living in isolation for years.
28. They have been using a code language to communicate and have been trying to find a way to resume time.
29. Sung-min believes that when they turn 20, their time will resume, and they steal money from everyone to be rich when that happens.
30. However, even when they turn 20, nothing changes, and they start to lose hope.
31. The isolation gets the best of Sung-min, and he screams and yells for it all to stop.
32. Tae-shik loses all hope and jumps off a cliff, but Sung-min follows him and also jumps.
33. However, at the last moment, the world resumes, and Sung-min is able to save Tae-shik.
34. Soo-rin and Sung-min decide to tell their story to the world, but they are unsure if anyone will believe them.
35. The police believe that Sung-min is the kidnapper and are searching for him.
36. Soo-rin and Sung-min go to the orphanage where Sung-min used to stay, and Soo-rin explains everything to the warden.
37. Do-kyun locks Soo-rin in her room, but Sung-min frees her, and they run away together.
38. Soo-rin suggests using the second egg to prove Sung-min's innocence, but he is against the idea.
39. Do-kyun sees that his daughter is missing and figures she went to the wooden house.
40. He attacks Sung-min and tries to take Soo-rin back home, but Sung-min knocks him out and runs away with her.
41. The police investigate the wooden house and believe that the kidnapper is manipulating Soo-rin.
42. The police find Soo-rin and Sung-min, and a chase ensues, but Soo-rin turns herself in to save Sung-min.
43. Soo-rin asks Sung-min to meet her at the cave, where she brings the glowing egg.
44. Sung-min refuses to return the egg to Soo-rin and is about to turn himself in and take the blame for killing his friends.
45. The police arrive, and Sung-min breaks the egg again to stop time and save Soo-rin and the detective.
46. When Soo-rin wakes up, she realizes that Sung-min has stopped time again.
47. Although it has only been a moment for her, for Sung-min it must have been another decade.
48. Soo-rin is taken back home, and the detective suggests she give a false statement to the media to clear her name.
49. Soo-rin is finally done telling her story to the psychiatrist and is left stunned.
50. The psychiatrist wants to write a book on Soo-rin's story, which is later published.
51. Soo-rin meets the psychiatrist again before leaving for high school and receives the published book.
52. Soo-rin sees Sung-min through her car window and runs to meet him, but finds no one.
53. However, the two meet on the deck of a ferry, and the movie ends with them staring at each other.