因为无法忍受身在朝鲜贫穷的生活和恶劣的生存环境，走投无路的青年全胜喆（朴正范 饰）逃到了韩国，成为了一名整日里东躲西藏的脱北者。来到韩国，全胜喆的生活条件有了很大的改善，然而远离故土，心中的苦闷不言而喻。
　　因为身份的问题，全胜喆无法拥有固定的住所和稳定的工作，更别提朝夕相处能够相互吐露心事的同事和朋友了，孤独的他身边只有一只流浪狗常年陪伴。某日，全胜喆结识了名为淑英（姜恩珍 饰）的美丽女子，全胜喆瞬间坠入了情网，可是，他深知自己的感情不会开花结果，只能将爱意深深埋藏在心底。一场蓄谋已久的诈骗使得全胜喆损失了一大笔巨款，使得他再度品尝到了绝望的滋味。

　　该片以视听障碍人支援法《海伦凯勒法》为素材。《海伦凯勒法》是指国家人权委员会2008年1月针对视听障碍残疾儿童不能接受教育的现状进行调查，并制定的相关政策。虽然已经过了12年，但人们对视听障碍人的认识仍然很落后。

　　长女静熙根据父亲南博士去世前留下的遗嘱，将嫁给画家东秀。曾有恩于南博士的年轻医生顺哲帮助静熙度过难关，又为她找到方社长推荐工作。顺哲爱着静熙，却因南博士的遗嘱不敢表白。同时，静熙妹妹明熙与东秀相恋，为了成全妹妹的幸福，静熙接受方社长的求婚......

　　Synopsis
　　Do-seong (Yoo Min) is a child monk who lives at a small mountain temple with the head monk (Byeon Ki-jong), learning the teachings of Buddha. He becomes attached to a young widow (Choi Eun-hee) who comes to pray at the temple, and the childless widow entreats the head monk to let her raise Do-seong as her own son. Conflict ensues when Do-seong's real mother (Kim Seon-young) appears, but she leaves the temple for the sake of her son's future. On the day the widow is to take the child down from the mountain, the head monk discovers that Do-seong has killed a bird by ensnaringit in a trap and decides not to let the boy go into the secular world. When Do-seong finds out that his real mother has been to the temple, he sets out to find her.
　　Notes
　　"A film that has garnered recognition for its cinematography and direction by eliminating sentimentality and unaffectedly capturing the quiet life of a mountain temple. A Hometown in Heart demonstrates the camera technique and directorial skill of movies that appeared after the liberation of Korea."
　　A Hometown in Heart, adapted from playwright Ham Se-deok's A Little Monk (Dong-seung), was hailed upon its release as "a masterpiece that marked a new pinnacle in Korean moviemaking after the liberation." Eschewing new-school sentimentality to quietly express a boy's longing for maternal love, the film unfolds the everyday lives of three generationsthe head monk, a young monk, and a little child monkagainst the backdrop of a quiet temple in the mountains. The long shots utilized by director of cinematography Han Hyung-mo to capture the beautiful scenery of the mountain temple from a distance received great critical acclaim at the time. Also, each of the film's characters is convincingly portrayed through the skillful direction of Yoon Yong-kyu. In particular, the scene which expresses Do-seong's desperate yearning for a mother's love and his birth mother's past visit to the temple by combining them into a dream sequence reveals deep consideration for articulating story and emotion via a compressed visual grammar without tending toward sentimentalism. The movie's final scene, in which Do-seong awakens from his dream and sets off down the path in search of his mother, is both touching and beautiful. The film also features Choi Eun-hee, in the part of the young widow who warmly embraces Do-seong with her love, in one of her first roles.
　　Afterword:
　　- Lee Kang-su, writing under the pseudonym of Kwak Il-byeong, first adapted playwright Ham Se-deok's A Little Monk (Dong-seung) into a screenplay, which was then shot for the silver screen with additional embellishments by the director.

　　生无可恋的死囚张真（张震 饰）知道自己剩下的日子不多，在他想要自杀之际，他又想要多活几天而放弃了马上死去的念头，继续感受冰冷的监狱，他也知道不用自己动手，他离死亡也不远了。
　　原本生活幸福的的室内设计师妍（朴智娥 饰）面对丈夫（河正宇 饰）的外遇，顿时倍感失落伤心。无意间 ，她在电视上看到了死囚张真的有关报道，恻忍之心油然而生，便前往监狱探望张真。
　　不知为何，妍把小时候徘徊死亡边缘的经历告诉了张真这名陌生人。妍想为张真做些事情，因此常常寄给张真礼物。妍的出现，再次带给了张真生活中的温暖。后来两人发展出的恋情，遭到了妍的丈夫的阻止。

　　南韩北韩即将统一，这也就意味着处于警戒线上的铁路也要随之开通。就在这个节骨眼上，日本方面出面干涉，拿出了一份在1907年同韩国政府签订的条约，指出若是开通铁路便会违反条约上的规定。
　　史学家崔民在（赵宰贤 饰）提出了一个有可能扭转时局的设想，那就是盖在条约上的国印系伪造，也就是说，这份条约没有任何的法律效益。想要证明国印为假，那就必须找出真正的国印，总统（安圣基 饰）全力支持崔民在的论断，并成立了寻找国印委员会。而反对方则将重点放在了维持国家安全和统一的方面，主张和日方维持良好合作关系，为了达到目的，总理（文成根 饰）甚至赋予了情报局秘书官李尚铉（车仁表 饰）抹杀崔民在的权利。