In the 1990s, an immigrant single mother raises her teenage son in the Canadian suburbs, determined to provide a better life for him than the one she left behind in South Korea.
Social & External
The people behind it
Choi Seung-yoon
So-Young
Ethan Hwang
Dong-Hyun
Dohyun Noel Hwang
Child Dong-Hyun
Anthony Shim
Simon
Hunter Dillon
Harry
Jerina Son
Mi-Sun
Kang In-sung
Won-Shik / In-Shik
Choi Jong-ryul
Grandpa
Lee Yong-nyeo
Grandma
Kendra Anderson
Miss Jane
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