The film is about the Gwangju Uprising in 1980 in South Korea. Song Kang Ho is the taxi driver named Kim Man-seob who takes TV journalist Peter (Kretschmann) from Seoul to Gwangju.
'My Ugly Duckling' star Lee Sang Min's score was lower by 8.54 percent than the 4.13 million he got in August but enough to place him first in September.