Synopsis
< Indian Summer > stands for that short time, just before autumn, when summer is in full bloom and your life seems to be at its peak. Sun-young (Lee Mi-yun) charged with killing her husband, stays mute at the court. Court-appointed lawyer Jun-ha tries to make her say something, but to no avail. However, thanks to Jun-ha, Sun-young is found innocent, and is freed. After few years, the two meet accidentally in the streets, and both are swept with a feeling of attraction. For Sun-young, her feelings of rage and alienation are at least temporarily forgotten by the encounter. They spend a time in a small wooden house in Kwangwon province, talking the night away. The scriptwriter of < Just because You Are a Woman >, < Indian Summer > is a debut film for NOH Hyo-jeong, and just like the previous script, it is a courtroom drama. < Indian Summer >'s fantasy and virtue lies here Stuck between the public relationship as the lawyer and his client, and the personal relationship, the two characters feel both the happiness and despair. A woman with a burden of past, driving towards death and her lover lawyer who tries to save her, two lovers endlessly crossing paths. Although certain questions are left unresolved, the simple fact that court room dram as are something of a rarity in Korea and that it deals with woman? issues more than makes up for its small flaws. (LEE Sang-yong)