If I hadn’t gone to Gwangju in May of that year, if I hadn’t met you in Gwangju, if I hadn’t let go of your hand in those woods, would you still be alive? But on this 41st May when you’ve finally returned, I realize that I was the one who chose to do all of that. In May of that year, I chose to go to Gwangju and chose to love you with all my heart. I prayed every day that worse pains in life would come to me instead of you. If I had been the one to die in the crossroads of life and death, and you had lived, you would’ve experienced the tides that I had experienced all this time. The life of the one who was left behind. Hence, I’ve finally realized that what I experienced all this time was the Lord’s way of answering my prayer. Those lonely and painful 41 years were merely my love for you.
LEE DO HYUN as Hwang Hee Tae in YOUTH OF MAY (2021)