This tragedy tells about Zen Buddhists ’ view of the world . The motif of this film is the ancient Buddhist poem written below which is from the tenth century . ' Sitting in high place meditation at silent night utter no words , Lonesome , the silences are the nature itself . '' Somehow the wind from the west raved through the forest , one chilly honking comes from the wild goose on the boundless sky . ' The word ‘ Somehow ’ in this poem implies the core of the eastern Zen Buddhism and the director of this movie tried to express the sentiment by creating a tragic story of a single mother and her son together with his father . In the discord structure of these three characters , the way how eastern Buddhists interpret the galaxy is shown . * SYNOPSISSuji is a single mother who gave birth to a boy when she was 16 years old . After the first birthday of child , her father decides to send her child to the temple near the city in spite of her resistance . Since then , her father became an object of her hatred . Not long after that she visits the temple alone to take her child back . While a nanny left the baby alone for a moment , she steals out the baby and run away to the deep in the mountains with her boy . Soon after , the chief monk finds her near the dark cave and relieves her fixation on her baby . A dozen years later , she visits the temple with her fiance to greet the chief monk before their marriage , but she made a secret of her past story . When the wedding is imminent , she decides to visit the temple again to stay a night with her son . Fatally , her son dies from a car accident in the midnight and she flash back to something that happened in the past .