Past Lives

Three early thirty-somethings, in order an Asian male, an Asian female, and a Caucasian male are sitting together at a bar, the two Asians who seem to be more engrossed with each other leaving the Caucasian on the outside. What is subsequently told is the story of the two Asians and how they got to this point. They are childhood best friends Hae Sung and Nora Moon, who, when at age twelve, were each other's first love in South Korea, they speculating that they would get married in the future. Their time together would change with Nora's family emigrating to Canada leading to them losing touch with each other until the onset of the Internet age when they would reconnect over cyberspace. This meeting at the bar in New York City, where Nora now lives, would be their first face to face in twenty years with their lives taking different paths in the intervening time including each having other significant others with the Caucasian being Nora's Jewish husband Arthur. The three will have to reconcile the thoughts of Hae Sung and Nora's twelve year old selves and how the build up of those thoughts over twenty years will affect their current realities.