Kwon returns to Seoul from the mountains and is given a packet of letters from Mori back from Japan to propose to her. Kwon drops and scatters the undated letters. She reads them and has to make sense of the chronology - and so must we?
Both films are about a foreigner who visits Korea (In Another Country it is a French woman, in Hill of Freedom it is a Japanese man. The two films also have some actors in common.