Sophie has an interracial marriage with a Korean-American lawyer, Andrew. The couple’s most tragic loss is that they cannot conceive a child. Driven by her husband’s infertility, which makes him extremely depressed, Sophie sets out to have a baby. She meets Ji-hah, an illegal immigrant from Korea, who’s come to donate sperm at a fertility clinic, and propositions him, agreeing to pay three hundred dollars each time they have intercourse and thirty thousand if and when she gets pregnant. She starts the affair for her husband’s sake, but their sexual transactions slowly grow more intimate and passionate. Sophie, who has felt like a stranger in her husband’s middle-class family, with their conservative Christian faith, feels empathy with Ji-hah. She finally gets pregnant but Andrew finds out about the affair. The film ends with Sophie on the beach with two children but without Andrew or Ji-hah. Crossing the difference of class and race through the sexual relationship, Never Forever is made by Kim Gina, who has explored the issue of femininity not as equality with a male but rather as difference in prior all of her prior works, including Empty House (1999) and Invisible Light (2003). In spite of the film’s neglect of Sophie’s memory or other contextualization through relationships besides the ones with her husband or his community, the film exquisitely captures Sophie’s wavering feelings towards Ji-hah through the most effective mise-en-scene and color. (KIM Sunah)