문학과 지성사

Every life has weight, no matter how big or small. That’s why you need to be careful with things that are alive. It requires responsibility.

Miyu, Eunha, and Jinho are best friends and neighbors who understand each other better than anyone can. While Miyu is grateful that her aunt and her cousin, Soyu, welcomed her into the family, she can’t help pondering on the meaning of a birth mother and whether that’s something everyone needs. One rainy day, Miyu rescues a baby deer nearly drowned in a canal and sees herself in the orphaned fawn. On the other hand, Eunha has been haunted by the last look of her mom in the hospital. She knows Grandma is doing her best to fill Mom’s absence, but Grandma’s face and voice remind her too much of Mom.
Having been raised by his grandma as a single parent, Jinho is unfathomably annoyed that Nyang, a 12-year-old senior cat, has been looking after an orphaned duckling that naively believes Nyang to be its mother. He can’t stand the clueless duckling, now grown enough to be independent yet still bothering old, frail Nyang. What’s more, his frustration is aggravated by his blaming himself for Grandma’s declining health. Resonating with Jinho’s internal conflict, Miyu and Eunha offer him warm advice and condolences. Today’s Sunshine successfully captures the meaning of life that seeps into the children’s everyday lives, allowing them to beam at each other despite their gloomy circumstances.