After getting divorced overseas, a novelist Chang-seok returns to Korea and readies to publish a novel based on his own life experience. He then meets the aimless Mi-young at a cafe located inside a bustling subway station in Euljiro who recollects her meeting with him and their past together. Chang-seok also meets his editor, Yoo-jin, who shares a leftover cigarette with him and thinks about her past. Next, he accidentally runs into a photographer Sung-ha who's taking care of his ailing wife. Last, Chang-seok shares a conversation with bartender Joo-eun, who tries to remember her memories from her patrons lost after a car accident.
Upon meeting each others, they explore slightly different themes, but each is connected with a shared feeling of loss and insecurity as each character struggles to remain sane in a society that evokes feelings of existential dread. This marks Chang-seok and changes his feelings and mind, also making him choose to begin writing yet another new story.[8][9]
Rich and realistic, he has a placid voice and expressive eyes. He hides his sadness underneath a prosaic exterior. However, the extent of grief over his divorce and the death of their child becomes increasingly visible, and many of his encounters reveal other achingly human stories of loss.[8]
^"김종관 감독 '아무도 없는 곳', 개봉 4일만에 1만 관객 돌파" [Director Kim Jong-kwan's "A Place Where There Is No One" surpasses 10,000 viewers in 4 days of release]. The Joongang Ilbo (in Korean). 5 April 2021. Retrieved July 31, 2021.
^"'아무도없는곳' 김종관 감독' "꿈도 현실도 아닌 경계에서의 창작 이야기"" [Director Kim Jong-kwan's "A story of creation at the border, neither a dream nor reality"]. The Chosun Ilbo (in Korean). 17 March 2021. Retrieved July 31, 2021.
