It’s Areum’s first day at work at the publishing company where Bongwan, a literary critic, is the boss. His wife, thinking Bongwan is fooling around with a new girl, shows up and thinks Areum must be the one. That’s how Areum gets assaulted by the wife of her new boss. Now, Bongwan’s past interrupts. In fact, Bongwan had fooled around with the girl who used to work in Areum’s position. Scenes from the past emerge into the present. Hong Sangsoo’s movies often show us a new slice of life not usually perceived, by mixing up two different levels of reality or comparing them. Sometimes, two characters have different recollections of one and the same situation, or sometimes dreams or a film-within-afilm infiltrates reality. In The Day After also, a strange sense is evoked through a crack where different timeframes become intertwined. When it seems to be the present, suddenly the past leaps out, or past and present are repeated in parallel. That’s why the title, "The Day After", specifically indicating time, was chosen. (NAM Dong-chul)