This is about May, a 26 year-old, attractive, Korean girl who has returned to Korea with questions about her identity. She was adopted out of her family and grew up in America. This is also, as one notch down on the priority list, a story about Eun-sul, a young taxi driver who has a heart condition and will die soon. Whether this is a story about them as a couple or not is an open question.

Eun-sul and May meet by chance, remeet by chance, or perhaps he is following her, or perhaps it is fate. May is almost entirely closed up within herself for their relationship developes slowly and imperfectly. (The movie is already 60% over before it finally changes from it's "go away, don't bother me" mode although it never completely abandons that mode.)

The secret they come to learn in the final five minutes of the movie is that they are, in truth, very intimately bound to each other: they were in the same bus accident that killed all of their parents. She was three at that time, he was about the same age. They huddled together, badly hurt, until rescued. It seems they may have been the only survivors.

The "lizard" is a wound on May's back and, for May, a question about her identity that demands an answer. It turns out to be a wound caused by Eun-sul as he pulled her off a jagged piece of metal to save her from being crushed shortly after the accident. The "red rabbit" that represents a partial memory to Eun-sul that he feels, if he could remember it, would lengthen his life slightly, is a blood-covered rabbit that survived the crash. The Korean title is better as identifying the theme: lovers who are brought together through the common bond of lost parents and lost memories.

This movie has poor reviews, poor online comments and limited ticket sales the year it was released. It has a very simple plotline, what for some including me is a weak ending, and has limited energy in how it explores anything beyond the central plotline. It makes filming errors, has puzzling plot advances, and so on.

Nevertheless, for our class it can be an object of study. The lack of self-awareness by the director towards certain aspects of the character's behaviors makes for easy study: Eun-sul is attracted to the hurt princess, "stay away" mood of May; May is secretly happy or won't even to herself acknowledge that she is happy, that this boy is so persistent in wanting to be with her. She has, through him, a witness to her loneliness. This movie is similar to "3-Iron" in its communication mode. In that film the two develop a relationship almost entirely without using words. Here words are exchanged but they are sparse and very guarded. Once big difference, however, is the kindness between the lovers in that film. Here little digs, critical ways of talking, rude behavior and such is one component of the path towards intimacy.