Notebook from My Mother

Aeran, a hardworking mother who runs a side-dish store in the neighborhood, and her son, Gyuhyon, a part-time instructor, whom she considers incompetent, do not get on well. The son abhors his mother's prickliness, but he isn't sweet to her either. The side-dishes that Aeran makes become famous for their healthy herbal ingredients, securing a good number of regular customers. Aeran always writes down her recipes and cooking process in detail along with drawings in a notebook. One day, Aeran is diagnosed with dementia, out of blue. When the symptoms get too severe, she decides to close her dearly-loved store, and, as independent as ever, enters a live-in senior care center on her own. Notebook from My Mother is a good-hearted nostalgic film about the so-called "taste of Mom's cooking." Aeran's dementia ushers the mother-son relationship into a new phase. Gyuhyon begins to understand his mother through her absence. Cooking with the help of his mother's notebook, the son recaptures and feels the loving flavors of family handed down over generations. (Busan International Film Festival)